Yahoo      Rating  10.00

yourname@yahoo.com

Offers 100 MB of storage space. Available in almost every major language. Very reliable service.

Hotmail    Rating 9.50

yourname@hotmail.com

Currently offers 2 MB of storage space but will soon upgrade to 250 MB. Available in almost every major language. Gave a 9.50 rating because after thorough testing, delivery of email is not as quick as Yahoo.

Excite       Rating 9.00

yourname@excite.com

Will soon be offering 125 MB of storage space.

 Gmail        Coming Soon

Free web based email service offered by the search portal Google. They will be offering 1 GB of storage space but they have been taking a lot of heat because Google will search through your emails to find relevant information for their advertisements directed to you. The advertisements however will not be annoying because it will be a text link and not a banner ad.

Rediffmail        Rating 8.00

yourname@rediffmail.com

Offers 1 GB of storage space. Their email servers are in India or somewhere in the middle east, so for users outside that country, it could be a little slower. Also, I have found that signing up for some newsletters were denied due to the servers being in India. Don't really know what that is all about.

Spymac        Rating 6.00

yourname@spymac.com

Offers 1 GB of storage space. Gave a low rating because their servers are really slow. Plus, for some reason, I couldn't "select all" and delete all the messages directly from the inbox. Kind of annoying. Plus, sometimes it takes forever for delivery of emails. The only good thing about this service is their storage space.