Talking about safemail. Although it's better then using gmail or yahoo don't think for a second you are totally safe. They are based in Israel and comply with the laws of that country. If they believe you are engaging in illegal activities they will cooperate with the authorities and that includes US agencies. I found this interesting article....
The Email Service The Dark Web Is Actually Using
As denizens of the dark web run from law enforcement’s expanding crackdown on anonymous online services, they’ve found a new favorite email provider: a little known Israeli company called Safe-mail. Whether they’ve chosen wisely remains to be seen.
In July last year, while investigating a hosting company known for hosting child porn sites with thousands of users, the FBI incidentally seized the entire email database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. The service was frequently used by high-profile members of anonymous drug market sites, including Dread Pirate Roberts–the operator of the Silk Road anonymous drug market–and tony76, the vendor believed to have scammed users of up to a quarter million dollars in Bitcoin last year.
On Aug. 5 of last year, Dread Pirate Roberts posted on the Silk Road forum advising users to think back on their TorMail usage and assume everything sent or received there without encryption could now be read by law enforcement. “I personally did not use the service for anything important, and hopefully neither did any of you,” he wrote.
The takedown of TorMail forced users to look for a new anonymous webmail provider; preferably a secure service outside the U.S., accepting of connections from the Tor network, and with lax registration requirements. Following many lengthy discussions on the Silk Road forum, it appears a large number of users decided to make Safe-mail, a provider of a “free high security web-based email system” based in Jerusalem, Israel, the new king of email for the dark web.
Known users of the Safe-mail web service include operators, vendors and customers of the dark web’s many drug market sites, journalists writing about the investigation into Silk Road, and BTCKing, the vendor who ran an underground anonymous Bitcoin exchange and allegedly worked with BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem to sell more than $1 million worth of Bitcoins to users of Silk Road.
According to a recent press release, Safe-mail Limited is a four-year-old company “specializing in secure feature rich messaging systems.” The company describes its email service as “the most secure, easy to use communication system” with an “encrypted mail system with collaboration features and document storage functions.” To sign up, the service only requires that users choose a username and password, providing a first and last name is optional.
When I reached out to Safe-mail for comment, Amiram Ofir, Safe-mail’s President and CEO, responded in an email that the company and its employees “certainly are not aware of any criminal activity,” adding that the company does “follow court orders that are issued in Israel by an Israeli court. Any other law enforcement agency should contact the Israeli authorities.” It’s worth noting, however, that Israel signed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with the U.S. in 1998. An MLAT request was used to image the Silk Road web server, according to the criminal complaint of Sept. 27, 2013.
Ofir told me that communications between users and the web service are SSL protected, and that information stored on the server is encrypted with user-specific keys. When asked if Safe-mail has received court orders issued by an Israeli court on behalf of a non-Israeli law enforcement agency, such as the FBI, Ofir replied with a short “Yes.” My followup email, asking if Safe-mail has the ability to decrypt information without a user’s key, went unanswered.
