I have enjoyed Outlook, though I can't say I've spoken to their customer service. Otherwise if you go with a smaller service and use it to send messages to Gma

I have enjoyed Outlook, though I can't say I've spoken to their customer service. Otherwise if you go with a smaller service and use it to send messages to Gmail recipients, there is a good chance that Google will automatically reject your messages as unsolicited spam, even if you were emailed first and even if you have no URLs in your message. More to the point on your question, you could create a second account on Google or another service, then automatically forward all of your email to that. If you get locked out of your primary account, you will at least have a backup somewhere