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Lavabit 
Lavabit homepageDeveloper(s) Lavabit LLC Stable release POP3 and IMAP / November 1, 2007 Type e-mail, POP3, IMAP, Webmail Website www.lavabit.com Lavabit is a free e-mail service founded in June 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] For paid users Lavabit prevents even the company's ability to access users' email accounts by using asynchronous encryption.[2] Lavabit offers free, ad-free accounts, non-targeted ad-supported accounts, and two levels of paid accounts. Lavabit currently serves over 210,000 customers.[3]
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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. IMAP has been supported since Nov 2007.[4] In 2009, Lavabit added advertisements from advertising company Branchr to the bottom of incoming emails on the ad-supported class of accounts.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Lavabit FAQ: When was Lavabit founded and why?". Lavabit LLC. 2007. http://lavabit.com/questions.html#q1. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ http://lavabit.com/secure.html
- ^ Lavabit statistics
- ^ Lavabit history
- ^ http://branchr.tumblr.com/post/156465652/introducing-lavabit
External links
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