OT: alternative to Gmail?

[Kyle]

try
http://www.gmx.com
Gives you 5GB instead of Google's 7GB, but allows 50MB attachments and 
is 100% IMAP compatible from my experience. As for the web interface, 
your mileage may vary, as I don't use it myself, but I hear it's nice 
enough. You can also have up to 10 email addresses on a number of gmx 
domains attached to a single account if you ever wanted to use different 
addresses for personal/business/whatever, and message filtering is also 
available from the web interface or from your client.
~Kyle