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Is there a "better" free alternative webmail?

You should consider all of them insecure and big time snoops if free and/or webmail. If webmail, best you can do is use a paid service with antisnooping in terms of service and preferrably local laws. Just reduces number that will attack you. Anything further requires using something like PGP/GPG over that so they can't read it. Strong endpoint security, too.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Non-webmail may not be accessible from everywhere, paid-email entails money exchange which maybe traceable. Lavabit seems to have been secure enough for Snowden (for a while).

So the question remains: Yes Free and/or Webmail are bad - which one is the LEAST bad from a privacy & security perspective?

There's a good list here that should allow you to decide for yourself:

http://prxbx.com/email/

That is a good list.

I like mailbox.org

They support pgp encryption.

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