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Mails are an essential part of everyday life for many people. I this modern day and age of web, securing you email is the essential. Access to your email via any 3rd party may be catastrophic. All of your accounts are linked to your primary email. The emails that you send and recieve from others must be encrypted. I recommend using the following email providers.
ProtonMail is an email service with a focus on privacy, encryption, security, and ease of use. They have been in operation since 2013. ProtonMail is based in Genève, Switzerland. Accounts start with 500 MB storage with their free plan.
Accounts have both free and paid plans. Paid plans start from €48/y which include features like ProtonMail Bridge, additional storage, custom domain support, and more.
For the basic use cases I would recommend the free plan because thats what's you need for the most part. If you want to add other features and also support the developers, then show them some love by getting a paid plan. (You also get a VPN if you got with the visonary one!)
ProtonMail accepts Bitcoin in addition to accepting credit/debit cards and PayPal.
ProtonMail supports TOTP two factor authentication only. The use of a U2F security key is not yet supported. ProtonMail is planning to implement U2F upon completion of their Single Sign On (SSO) code.
ProtonMail has zero access encryption at rest for your emails, address book contacts, and calendars. This means the messages and other data stored in your account are only readable by you. No pesky corporations spying on you data.
ProtonMail has integrated OpenPGP encryption in their webmail. Emails to other ProtonMail users are encrypted automatically, and encryption to non-ProtonMail users with an OpenPGP key can be enabled easily in your account settings. They also allow you to encrypt messages to non-ProtonMail users without the need for them to sign up for a ProtonMail account or use software like OpenPGP.
ProtonMail also supports the discovery of public keys via HTTP from their Web Key Directory (WKD). This allows users outside of ProtonMail to find the OpenPGP keys of ProtonMail users easily, for cross-provider E2EE.