email provider suggestions

gmail is the way to go. TONS of free storage, and you can have 5 accounts if you want. The ads that gmail generates do not appear in your in-box. There are places on most sites that you visit that have 'banner' ads, sorta like the ones you see here on FABO, like the one at the top / bottom of this page. The ads are supposedly custom tailored to things you might be interested in. I never look at those ads, I never have, never will.