I might pay a buck a year for an email service that didn't serve ads, had a gmail-level quality and had solid privacy/security baked in. That said I tend to ste

I might pay a buck a year for an email service that didn't serve ads, had a gmail-level quality and had solid privacy/security baked in. That said I tend to steer clear of the lavabit-esque providers who go out of their way to advertise their over-my-dead-body stance on handing over emails because it makes them a target and tends to make people associate you with paranoids (even if they are after you :)