German Free Email Providers

The following providers offer their services in German

FollowUpMailGold [SPECIAL]

Free autoresponder service that allows you to configure a sequence of up to 10 text messages to be delivered automatically. You can pay to upgrade to the more powerful 52-message service.

Freenet.de [FORWARDING] [SPECIAL]

@freenet.de
Unified messaging service integrating a free 20MB email account (with up to 11 aliases) with 30MB of online data storage, and a personal organizer and address book, plus SMS/fax messaging facilities. The email portion of the service includes anti-spam filtering. The service also allows for up to 3 SMS messages and 3 faxes to be sent out free every month.

GMX [POP] [WEB] [FORWARDING]

You can also check your existing POP mail account via this site. You can forward email to multiple accounts. Service free for 30 days.

Hurra [FORWARDING] [SPECIAL]

@hurra.de

Lycos Mail [WEB]

Free email forwarding service, with support for pager and SMS messaging (up to 10 messages per month free)

Schweiz.ch [FORWARD]

@schweiz.org, suisse.org, svizzera.org, switzerland.org
Free email in Switzerland (site in Swiss German). The choice of domain names certainly covers most possibilities!

Unicum [WEB]

@unicum.de
Free email with 3MB disk space

Web.de [WEB] [POP] [SPECIAL]

@web.de
Web-based and POP3 email with 8MB of disk space, spam filter, a pager gateway, SMS service, autoresponders, signature files and more... You must live in Germany, Austria or Switzerland to sign up. They also offer free digital ID certificates that can be used for encrypting mail, signing software code etc.