Many people don't care about email account security and just go for a Hotmail account because it's automatically MSN compatible or a Gmail account because it has lots of space. But out of those of you who choose your email based on safetey and security, which client do you recommend? There are tons out there.

Personally, I use GMX.net, it's a German service with extremely high security. They have a password meter to check your password for how easy or hard it might be to guess, encouraging you to use upper and lower case letters along with numbers. They verify all your contact information and scan for fake addresses. They also warn you before viewing HTML emails that may contain inappropriate or harmful information. They're claimed to be one of the best European email providers. They even provide you with a 1GB mailbox that can be accessed by 5 separate, free email addresses. The only downside to some people is that the service is all in German. So if you don't speak German, such a safe and handy email client isn't of much use to you.

Does anyone else here use GMX? If not, what do you use, and do you actually care about the security, or just the space and special features?

Well, YAHOO,GMAIL.MAIL.COM,FASTERMAIL.COM all of them are at the high level security , Just in yahoo maybe you can find some ways to block an EMAIL ADDRESS , but they have the best security! EVER!

i'm not sure but i haven't really needed any added security. I working on a mac and there aren't any viruses out there for us. But i'm assuming here that the worry is viruses. I would say, if you have the cash, then by a mac
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Hmm.. i never really worried about my email provider security.

I mean I AM the one that's suppose to be careful with my own email address. Not open suspect programs and files, be careful when handling emails coming from a strange person.. etc etc.

For email providers i use Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo (and my internet provider email account)

As Gmail and my internet provider accounts support POP3, i usually read them with Mozilla Thunderbird.

So i think the most important thing when it comes in email security is the user self attention to not fall in not necessary risks.

I have been using yahoo mail for years. In my opinoin there the best to use.

I use a Yahoo.co.uk email account that I have set up to use Mozilla Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is a lot more secure than Outlook Express and Outlook. Just like Mozilla Firefox is much more secure than Internet Explorer.

Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are a nice combination to have together.

Why is Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird much more secure? It is, because they are free open source programs that have many developers coding them from all over the world. The majority of the Firefox or Thunderbird developers are hobbyists and do not get paid to code Firefox or Thunderbird.

With open source programs the source code is available for anyone to get hold of. Yes this does include the bad guys, but with popular open source programs such as Firefox and Thunderbird any security issues that they find out about get fixed really quickly. Where as a software company with Microsoft being a prime example, it can take over a year before security issues are fixed in a program, if they ever get fixed at all.

i agree with that~ the user would be the one responsible for the security of his/her account, so its much better to watch what things you open rather than totally rely onthe email client
i use thunderbird too at times~

Well what you are saying is basically about email service providers not about EMAIL CLIENT.
An Email Client is basically a software which downloads your email from pop, imap and sends it from smtp server for example : Outlook, Outook express, eudora etc.
But yes if you are asking about the security thing then GMAIL, HOTMAIL are fine because when you are typing your password there main page is secured and thus makes sure that password cannot be decrypeted by anyone else. Thus ensuring the security of the emails!

security isn't my concern since, most of my emails is junk anyways, but i have to yahoo, has pretty good security though.