Recently, I've been testing Lavabit.com email service. It's a personal POP3 email account that easily could be accessed through Outlook or Thunderbird (which I personally prefer to the Outlook).

According to its founders it is one of the most secure email services in terms of privacy. They say that even their system admins couldn't read their customers' messages. Also they claim to be an alternative to Gmail.com who, as we know, as a part of Google.com has a lot of privacy related issues - especially targeted advertising possible due to algorythms scanning emails' content.

Anyway, it is good to know that there is an alternative and secure email account in case you need to send some "very important message" being sure it won't be read by a third party; however I won't move from my Gmail account as there are lots useful features as for yet.

If interested take a look here: http://lavabit.com/

Cool, in these days security matters a lot..

I wonder what the interface is, is it AJAX? If you can paste a screenshot in the forum?

Honestly, I have not idea what it is. I guess you'd better say. It looks like php, doesn't it?

Here's how their web mail looks like:


However the idea is to use it through Outlook or Thunderbird as the web mail is very simple and has almost no features at all so it's advisable to access your inbox and send your messages through those two email platforms; There's a very easy guide how to do the settings and start downloading and getting your messages straight into your Outlook or Thunderbird inbox as it's in my case: