Top Free Email Services 2017

Zoho Mail is a solid email service with ample storage, POP and IMAP access, some integration with instant messaging and online office suites.

Aimed at professional users, Zoho Mail could be even more helpful organizing mail, identifying key messages and contacts, and sending replies.
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Yandex.Mail offers a full, rich and usable email experience with powerful web access, mobile apps, POP as well as IMAP access and unlimited storage.

Functions such as message templates, reminders, e-cards and keyboard shortcuts help handle mail with efficiency and fun in Yandex.Mail. Still, its rules could be more versatile, text snippets would support templates, and Yandex.Mail could function as a full web-based IMAP client.
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Outlook Mail offers a rich email experience on the web and can be accessed via IMAP, POP, and Exchange ActiveSync. Outlook Mail automatically bans spam, and the web interface collects clutter and is smart about large file attachments.

However, Outlook Mail on the Web could be still smarter in suggesting replies, and tools to postpone incoming and schedule mail are missing. On the bright side, you can recover deleted emails pretty easily.
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Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages. Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find mail precisely and see it in context without effort. POP and powerful IMAP access let you access your email with any email program or device.

Gmail puts contextual advertising next to the emails you read.
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ProtonMail lets you use highly secure email for free using capable mobile apps and an equally potent web interface.
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Inbox by Gmail is an alternative interface to Gmail designed to help you manage not just email but the information in those emails with countless tools and fresh approaches.

As helpful as all these can be, they can also confuse and overwhelm, especially at first. Take your time exploring and you'll be fine.
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AIM Mail, AOL's free web-based email service, shines with unlimited online storage, very good spam protection and a rich, easy to use interface.

Unfortunately, AIM Mail lacks a bit in productivity (no labels, smart folders, and message threading) although it makes up for some of that with very functional IMAP (as well as POP) access.
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iCloud Mail is a free email service from Apple with ample storage, IMAP access and an elegantly functional web application. That interface at icloud.com does not offer labels or other more advanced tools for productivity and for organizing mail, though, and does not support accessing other email accounts. POP access to iCloud Mail is missing, too.
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Yahoo! Mail is your ubiquitous email program on the web and mobile devices with ample storage, SMS texting, social networking and instant messaging to boot.

While Yahoo! Mail is generally a joy to use, free-form labeling and smart folders would be nice and the spam filter could catch junk even more effectively.
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Mail.com and GMX Mail are reliable email services filtered well of spam and viruses whose unlimited online storage you can use with a rich web interface and mobile apps. POP and iMAP access are available as a paid add-on.

Additional, smarter ways to organize mail could be nice.
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