Web.de & GMX are truly some of the worst mail providers I have ever had to deal with. Web.de, I think, just recently upped the ante on provided mail storage to

Web.de & GMX are truly some of the worst mail providers I have ever had to deal with. Web.de, I think, just recently upped the ante on provided mail storage to 1gb (up from very very little, I think it was 10mb or so, I don't remember, but my girlfriend used it like 2-3 years ago and I was shocked upon hearing that). Their UI is awful. Gmail came out in 2005 (or so) and it took them 7 years to move to a more modern ajaxy interface that didn't like like coming from the 90s. And yet, they still have tons of awful advertising everywhere, in a way where Gmail feels like a blessing. If you seriously want to move users onto the German soil, dear Telekom or German Government, please take some of the money that is being burned everyday on ideas like the above, and try to find a serious startup motivated to create a real Gmail competitor. Something that doesn't try to be what Gmail used to be 5 years ago, but something that tries to be what Gmail will be in 5 years. I hear Berlin is packed with people willing to startup every idea that can't run away fast enough or has been done in the US one year ago. Now, I don't want to sound cynic, and I think it's great that there's some initiative for secure email and some understanding for privacy even at a level as high as telekom, but I'd be even better if they'd done something broader instead of teaming up with Germanies worst mail providers.