Child safe email account?

tess228

Can anyone recommend an email account that would be safe for children to use - preferably a free one?

Thanks

st999

there are no safe email accounts, especially free.

Stan

tess228

Thanks for that. I suspected as much but still hoped.

davebatt

As above there are no child safe mail providers.

Depending on the age of the child I would set up a mail account and keep the password myself then let them read it in your presence (or pre-screen the message), can't imagine a teen being too happy with that setup though.

Mum_of_3_3

AOL used to let you have a child's account where they could only receive e-mails from ones that you have added manually.

If your child is a teen with loads of e-mail address to add then it oculd be a pain, but if it is only for a few select addresses it works well.

They only thing is I'm not sure if it's just for paying AOL customers or not.

M_o_3

kwikbreaks

Gmail certainly alows you to set up your own filters so you could create a rule that allows mail from specified sources and deletes everything else. I haven't tried this and other mails may still end up in spam or the bin where it would be possible to find them manually so you'd need to test it. If it does you'd need to set up a desktop client to pull down stuff from the inbox and keep the online password secret.

Saving_spree

I have never heard such a thing about an E-mail account.

tess228

I will look into that - thanks for letting me know.