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Comment by xentronium

There is always yandex, if you aren't afraid of a Russian company.

https://mail.yandex.com

You can also set up a personal domain there for free, if you can read/translate Russian instructions at http://pdd.yandex.ru

Their web client for mail is localized into English.

Pros:

* Not google; yandex have rather good reputation here, and like google, they are tech company, with good engineering team

* A nice web-interface for mail (for my use case it's comparable to google's)

* Supports RSS feeds via mail interface

* Like google, there are interesting services: calendar, maps, search, translations, etc.

Cons:

* Basically, yandex is Russian google in terms of business (89% of their revenue is ads); however, they don't do hardware and don't have a facebook/plus-like social network

* Russian-based, so potentially a kgbfsb threat (never heard of any kgbfsb incidents, though)

* Some/most services are not localized for English speakers

parent xentronium 13 years ago

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