Alternative email server [SOLVED]

[Silver Surfer]

Hi Moem,
Thanks for your thoughts. I’m glad someone else has similar opinions of the “Big G” organisation I was beginning to think it was just me being paranoid.
Your comment about Enigmail, are you in favour of, or casting dubiousness about it being free?.
I was worried when downloading Enigmail and getting this message:-
Permissions

Some add-ons ask for permission to perform certain functions. Since you’re in control of your Firefox, the choice to grant or deny these requests is yours.
Please note this add-on uses legacy technology, which gives it access to all browser functions and data without requesting your permission.

Silver Surfer

[Moem]

I'm using Enigmail in SeaMonkey Mail (very similar to Thunderbird) since years, and it's never given me reason to worry. You can also find it in the Software Manager.

[solarmax]

I use GMX for casual emails and for several subscription sites and I cannot fault it. Give it a try.

[Pheeble]

There is another email provider that seems to be unpopular these days: Yahoo. I don't use it for anything particularly important, but there is one thing about Yahoo that I really like: Using a Yahoo email account, I can create up to 500 disposable email addresses that are not simply a variation of my main email address. This is great when it's necessary to provide an email address to a business or web site and I'm concerned the address will be used to send me spam. I create an email address specifically for that interaction, and I can later delete it. My main email address is never exposed so I don't get an increasing deluge of junk email.

[Silver Surfer]

Thanks to all respondents.

Think I might go for Enigmail AND Veracrypt to protect more important Data
Thanks everyone,

Silver Surfer