Lavabit

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Lavabit

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Developed by	Lavabit LLC
Latest release	POP3 and IMAP / November 1, 2007
Genre	e-mail, POP3, IMAP, Webmail
Website	www.lavabit.com

Lavabit is a free e-mail service founded in June of 2004 (originally as Nerdshack and Mailshack) intended to be a privacy-sensitive alternative to Gmail. According to the Lavabit FAQ, "Lavabit was founded... in response to Gmail. At the time, Lavabit’s founders felt Gmail was a great service but that Google was actively violating the privacy of its users by displaying ads related to keywords in their e-mail. Lavabit’s founders also felt they could provide a higher level of service than the competition."^[1] Lavabit prevents even the company's ability to access users' email accounts by using asynchronous encryption. Lavabit offers free, ad-free accounts, non-targeted ad-supported accounts, and two levels of paid accounts. Lavabit currently serves over 81,000 customers.^[2]

1 History
2 Features
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Lavabit LLC was founded in June 2004 as Nerdshack LLC. It was created as a free email service to provide both large email quotas and high security. In February 2005, the company initiated a proprietary mail server for SMTP and POP3, and the company became Lavabit LLC one month later. In November 2007, Lavabit gained IMAP support.^[3]

[edit] Features

Lavabit offers POP3 and IMAP email, (with IMAP support starting on November 1, 2007).^[4] Lavabit email has spam filtering, virus filtering, and security with SSL and asynchronous encryption, among other things.^[5]