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| List of the best free webmail privacy services Posted: 27 Feb 2012 01:32 PM PST Email privacy services One of the most private email communication systems consists in using a proxy to connect to a free webmail service and encrypt the messages yourself with PGP, this method gives you privacy and anonymity. Thunderbird+Enigmail, or GPG4Win could do that and it won’t cost you a cent, another easy privacy email system consists in using a proprietary email client like Safester or Trulymail to encrypt everything end to end, but the receiver will have to be using the same software. As a last resort you can use a webmail service with superb privacy policy, these are hard to come by for free. Lavabit: All email is stored encrypted with AES256 in their server, it provides virus and spam filters and SMTP/IMAP in addition to webmail, your IP is visible when you send email. The company is located in the US. Vmail: It hides your computer IP in the email headers, SSL connection, virtual keyboard to thwart keyloggers when you access your email in public computers, and a pledge to erase all connection logs after 3 months. Their servers are located in the Netherlands. Safe-mail: Connection is through SSL, emails in between Safe-mail users are always encrypted, when sending messages to an external address it can be encrypted with a digital certificate after importing it to Safe-mail or use a dropbox, they call it “Safebox”, where the other end is sent a link to a password protected page to retrieve the message. Safe-Mail doesn’t hide your computer IP in the headers and free accounts have a small inbox. The company is based in Israel. Hushmail: Offering automatic PGP encryption in between Hushmail users, it eliminates the sender computer IP from the headers, email can be accessed with a mobile device, compatible with the iPhone. If you don’t log into your free Hushmail account for some weeks it will be automatically closed. The company headquarters are located in Canada. PrivacyHarbor: After sending an email recipients receive a link to a secure webserver where they can read and reply to the message, the sender is notified when someone reads an email, malware infections are minimized viewing attachments in your browser without saving them to your hard disk, there are no advertisements. The company is based in the US. JumbleMe: HIPAA compliant webmail convenient for medical staff, it can set expiration dates on email, if the message is not read within the specified period it will be deleted from the server. When you send a message to an external mail provider a clickable link is given to the receiver for him to read the encrypted message. The company is based in the US. Webmail services hiding your IP in the headers The following email services will hide your computer IP in the headers when sending a message. I tested all of them and the sender’s IP is replaced with a neutral IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) private IP address, a range of IP addresses not linked to any country or person reserved for use in private networks, the only way to find out who sent the email would be to contact the company behind the email infrastructure. Fastmail: Managed by Opera, the browser company, Fastmail offers free and paid accounts, the free webmail has small inbox space and inactivity time rules. Gmail: With huge storage space but Google will scan all of your emails to insert what they call “contextual advertising“, a privacy invasion by itself. Zoho Mail: Easy to integrate with their online office apps to work with documents, there are no advertisements whatsoever. NOTE: Some email services will only strip your computer IP from the headers if you are using webmail and include the IP for desktop SMTP messages.
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