Quoted from Sheprd:1and1.com
omg. worse advice ever.
Stay away from 1and1.com ( source )
Hotmail is ok. I use it for "junk" or sites that don't deserve my real address. My beef with Hotmail is there was some claims by Microshaft that they were going to discontinue the Windows (7) Live email client in favor of a more secure environment. When they do that; I'm gone... and will be using Gmail which still supports Pop and IMAP email client.