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You email is as private as your addressees's email provider. So if many people you are communicating with are using gmail - it won't buy you much to switch.
You may want to try https://www.hosteurope.de/E-Mail-Hosting/#Vergleich
It's in Germany. I am not in full support of services in the US. I however understand that there is not guarantee that they/NSA/BB can't get an order/subpoena to access your server though.
Here are the product details: Mailboxes: 1 Storage per mailbox: 5 GB Webmailer Pro: Yes POP / IMAP: Yes Daily backup: Yes Mobile Sync: Yes Shareable calendars, address books and tasks: Yes One-time setup fee: € 9.99 € 4.99
You can get up to 5 mailboxes by paying $5-$10 more I think.
It'll take you some time to set it up, but it will be educational!
Run your own mailserver - postfix + roundcube. It'll take you some time to set it up, but it will be educational!
I am using https://www.fastmail.com with great results. They do have some features in there interface to ease the transition like being able to both send and receive mail from your old address directly from there interface.
Some nice things they have: * Proper IMAP and SIEVE support. * CalDAV, CardDAV. * The UI is keyboard-only usable. * The support team is really responsive (they actually added a shortcut for an option that was lacking one within a few days of my request!). * They give back a lot to the FLOSS community, which I really value (but their webmail is mostly proprietary).
Their usage of actually standards (instead of just their own) is a great thing! I still use mutt for gpg email, and khal for calendaring, which is pretty good.
They also host your XMPP server, if you're an XMPP user.
I've been meaning to post a thorough review, but haven't had the time to polish it. I'll post it in HN once I have it, since I'm sure many will be interested.
My advice is if you manage to encrypt your email with good encryption, stick with a popular provider (i.e. gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc). A privacy-aware email provider called Lavabit was shut down a while ago. Thankfully I hadn't lost much but some people did.
If you really need privacy, try going the gpg way.
Examples are gmx.de and web.de. (Although I'd caution you with the latter - I use their free version and am not impressed with their customer service: nonexistent. Also, they send you their own advertising. I don't know if their paid tier is any better, I haven't tried it.)
Run your own mailserver - postfix + roundcube. It'll take you some time to set it up, but it will be educational!