With GiveBackMail, you can give back with ease. The free email service donates 25 percent of its proceeds to charities, paid for by the site’s advertising. You simply take your current email provider – say Yahoo, AOL or Gmail – and switch while keeping the same email address. Sound basic? It is.Every time you send an email, you have made a difference.

The service operates based on the paid advertisements that appear when using your email account. More users mean more ad dollars. GiveBackMail claims to avoid flooding its clients with ads, offering a service that is optimized for ease of use and includes many new features while avoiding so many advertisements that it becomes frustrating to manage your email.

To sign up, visit the registration page, type in your email address and the password connected to the account, and your mail is automatically transferred to your new GiveBackMail account. Each time you wish to view your email, you log in to GiveBackMail. The service even lets you manage multiple accounts, combining, for example, an AOL and a Gmail account.

The size of a user base determines the amount of money email services pull in. Hotmail and Google, for instance, can hit millions of dollars. By using services such as GiveBackMail, these dollars can be directed toward nonprofits in need.

GiveBackMail provides the same features that other major platforms offer – even those that are fee-based. Send and receive files up to 100MB, manage multiple email accounts, unsend emails sent too soon, preview attachments before downloading, customize your accounts to add feeds from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and rest easy knowing your mail is secure due to HTTPS – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure – the same system banks use for safeguarding client information. It also includes the typical features of a calendar, list of contacts, briefcase, spell check and tasks.

GiveBackMail is compatible with most email providers, including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL. For more information visit www.givebackmail.com or follow the service on twitter at @GiveBackMail.

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