I'm willing to pay for email instead of using Gmail. The combination of Google's massive accumulation of data about you and American authorities' relatively eas

I'm willing to pay for email instead of using Gmail. The combination of Google's massive accumulation of data about you and American authorities' relatively easy access to the data strikes me as somewhat creepy. Google claims to not be evil, but the truth is, we don't know, because Google employees are contractually bound to secrecy on a lot of issues. People say that "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product," and there's something to that. The amount of money needed to get a normal IMAP account with SSL is quite small, and worth it if you ask me. http://runbox.com/ http://runbox.com/ and http://gandi.net/ http://gandi.net/ are good options for those who want paid secure accounts hosted in Europe.