Fastmail is very good, an independent provider. Costs $50 a year, but no surveillance of your mail, no ads, lots of storage, and you can create tons of 'alias' email addresses if you don't want every little list and vendor to have your real one.

I had to bail out of a long-term Yahoo address when they admitted they were going to monitor and analyze my 'private' mail content. And I just don't want to feed the Google surveillance state, either.