AOL has launched the free web e-mail service with 2 GB of space. Now you have the following option to create e-mail.

Gmail with 2 GB of space
AOL with 2 GB of space
Yahoo with 1 GB of space
Hotmail with 250 MB of space
and in India you also have rediff with 1 GB of space.

For some resons I dont like AOl service as compare to Gmail because it shows you banner ad and not more user friendly as gmail.

anyway, you can check it out at AIM
I have also created an e-mail address sudhirupadhyay at aim dot com