TOP RECOMMENDATIONS - FREEM POP3 EMAIL SERVICES

Free spam-protected email with 250MB of storage, POP3 and web-based access and outgoing SMTP. One key feature of Bluebottle which makes it stand out from most email services is that it will only accept emails from trusted senders. Senders can be flagged as trusted manually inside the Bluebottle interface, or they can complete a verification step to prove that they are mailing from a real email address. Paid service levels are available, with enhanced features. Free POP3 and web-based email service with 10MB of storage and sophisticated anti-spam protection, including whitelist, blacklist and keyphrase options. Note that you will receive a "daily devotional" email in your LPEmail account.
Free email service with web-based access, POP3 and IMAP support, plus SMTP service for outgoing email. The storage and monthly bandwidth quotas are both fixed at 15MB for free users, though premium upgrades are available. Other features include built in virus scanning and spam protection, and an address book that will hold up to 100 entries.
HotPop offers a combined POP3/forwarding and web-based email service. At the free level, HotPop includes 10MB of storage for email messages, and the ability to specify up to 3 destination addresses to forward messages to. There is a limit of 500KB per email, and 1,000 incoming email messages per day.

HotPop's service includes free outgoing SMTP, with a limit of 500 messages per day. The free service is supported by separate advertisements that HotPop distributes to user mailboxes on behalf of "selected" advertisers. HotPop also offers no less than 5 premium service tiers, which are ad-free and introduce higher limits on mail traffic and the size of individual messages, as well as other features.
Free POP3 email service with a generous 15MB of storage and a 15MB per-email limit, in 12 different languages. Offers a choice of themes for your mailbox, message filtering, plus spam and virus protection.
Free POP3 email service with a 100MB storage quota, outgoing SMTP, and support for email messages up to 10MB each. Service includes encrypted authentication, encrypted sending and receiving. There is currently no webmail interface to mailboxes, so you will need to configure your email client in order to acccess your new account.
New Zealand-based free email service with POP3/web-based access and 10MB of storage space. Signup limited to those living in New Zealand.
SAFe-mail offers a free email service with 3MB of storage space and powerful encryption that can be used to send highly secure email messages between any two SAFe-mail accounts. This secure email facility also protects the integrity of any email attachments. Features include IMAP/POP3 support as well as web-based access to email accounts and outgoing SMTP support, address books with secure sharing facility (to transmit address books between SAFe-mail users), folders and sub-folders for sorting email, secure message boards and online document storage space. Premium versions of the SAFe-mail service extend the available storage space.