What is the best e-mail system to preserve privacy?

[potone]

After all of the revelations about what the NSA has been doing, I am concerned about my privacy on the internet. I use Startpage for browsing, but my workplace uses gmail for e-mail, and it is monitored by my employers. I would like to set up another e-mail account that is private. I am not tech-savvy, as you can all probably tell, so I would appreciate advice on this.
Thanks in advance.
Potone

[bananas]

1. Carrier pigeon. nt

[ChromeFoundry]

2. It's not the email provider

Emails are sent across the Internet in clear text. The NSA, or anyone else that has access to the traffic can capture your traffic. If you are sending emails, hypothetically, from Outlook.com to Gmail... it travels across the Internet backbone in clear text. You cannot control this unless you encrypt the content before uploading it to Outlook.com and have your recipient download the content to their local PC and decrypt it to view the contents. This is usually not practical when sending something to your Granny.

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. No such thing, really.

You can encrypt the contents of your emails...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

[bkdroid13]

11. Open Source and Free Software

Thanks

[sir pball]

4. Tormail is good for anonymity

Tor Mail's goal is to provide completely anonymous and private communications to anyone who needs it.[1] The service provider owners declare they are anonymous and cannot be forced to reveal anything about a Tor Mail user.
Tor Mail service consists of several servers, this hidden service, and an incoming and outgoing internet facing mail servers - the relays, they relay mail in and out of the Tor network, they are disposable servers purchased anonymously and not traceable to user or service provider.
The owners declare the only things stored on the hard drive of those servers is the Exim mail server and the Tor software. No emails, logs or personal data are stored on those servers, thus it doesn't matter if they are seized or shut down. They claim to be prepared to quickly replace any relay that is taken offline for any reason.

I don't have time right now to explain the underlying Tor network (work awaits), but the Wikipedia article will get you started. It sounds much more complicated than it really is; you just download the Tor Browser and go.

[Y-T]

8. Can we use Tor Browser on Democratic Underground

It made me nervous that Democratic Underground demanded cookies be enabled to join this site. Also that Google search is used to search the site. Duck-Duck-Go is better for privacy.

[cprise]

5. It goes by the unlikely name I2P-Bote

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http://geti2p.net

Install this software on a *secure* system and when you get to the router console click on Secure Mail.

EDIT: You need to install the I2PBote plugin first.

[Y-T]

7. proton mail

Per above https://protonmail.com/

[potone]

9. Thanks!

[Lonnie Mack]

10. I'm signing up this very moment

Looks promising!