[Phil A]

I'd never give an ISP my cell number for any purpose.  I get those same message requesting it from AOL and ignore them and have been doing that for a few years.  I have a gmail account but don't use it (believe I set it up for YouTube) and maybe check it once a year.  I keep one e-mail for personal stuff and I have one if I order things.  So I pretty much can ignore and delete most of those as those are basically merchandise sales

[skunark]

If you have your own domain you can set up zoho.com for free (for first domain) that will provide you with webmail and imap server and you can even enable two-factor authentication.  There's a spam filter and other goodies as well for mail and other products that are free and some business type apps that are extra.    Setup isn't hard if you follow the instructions they provide.

[FullRangeMan]

Thanks boys and gals for your first hand infos.
The reason Iam start to look a new email service was last week I receive that Goo screen asking my cell phone and it had no option to skip it.

I logoff and on various times but that screen always appear, so I fail to skip the gmail request and dint get into my email box.
Fortunately on the next day I try enter again and no more receive that phone screen.
By the run of the situation I afraid in some months it will get impossible access the inbox.
I even no own a cell phone but there is no option to inform it to Mr.Goo.
Regards

[JohnR]

I've been using FastMail for some years. Very happy with the service and while not free it's not very expensive. https://www.fastmail.fm/

Hi Mike, I abandoned FM some years ago after an outage that lasted nearly a week. That was IIRC one of the incidents that convinced me that, well, in the end you get what you pay for. I still have a free account there but won't rely on it for anything critical. YMMV.

[wilsynet]

Fortunately on the next day I try enter again and no more receive that phone screen.
By the run of the situation I afraid in some months it will get impossible access the inbox.
I even no own a cell phone but there is no option to inform it to Mr.Goo.

If you don't have a cell phone, why don't you type in your land line number?

[FullRangeMan]

If you don't have a cell phone, why don't you type in your land line number?

I dont want give personal info to a global info company as Goo, specially after Snow den, which show nothing new so far.
Also that validation cell number pgm are well done and reject fake numbers (it show a invalid phone number alert msg) as 1111.1111 etc and even land lines phones numbers, which here starting with 2 or 3 usually.

I would like a free email service as I dont want inform the credit card details to that company to pay a temporary email service, as usually people are forced to change email provider after a few years for various reasons, inclusive for security.

I plead the idea that the email provider does not should know much about the user for security reasons.

[WGH]

Thinking a little out of the box here, but if you are concerned about personal info getting out then you will have to go dark.

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/hostmyown.html

With a domain name I believe you can use the free Apache or other free server software and host your website and email server. The Domain Name Privacy Option blocks the Whois inquiry so the domain owner and contact info is hidden.

I think Jim Salk of Salk Sound still hosts his site from his house.

Wayne

[FullRangeMan]

Thinking a little out of the box here, but if you are concerned about personal info getting out then you will have to go dark.

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/hostmyown.html

With a domain name I believe you can use the free Apache or other free server software and host your website and email server. The Domain Name Privacy Option blocks the Whois inquiry so the domain owner and contact info is hidden.

I think Jim Salk of Salk Sound still hosts his site from his house.

Wayne

Thanks for help, this are a option to consider.
The G mail is the smartest on the web, it even note when you logon from a different state or country ip and send to you a msg asking for a confirmation! usually birth date etc.

What about a proxy server?? for the entirely pc traffic(not only the email??
It is slower I know, but there is any big drawback??