Ask HN: Best email service for kids?

My only suggestion would be to set him up with a Gmail and try and play around. I think there could be mail forwarding in the settings.

Although its probably just best to let get his own personal address. I had an email at the age of 10.

I can't think of any good parent oversight mechanism except from receiving a copy of every message that is sent or received from that inbox and this doesn't sound like feature.

Just a question, what does he _need_ email for?

Good question: at present mainly so I can answer his programming questions and send him learning material. We live in different countries.

I was visiting some family recently and their ~5yo son was interested and playing with code.org. You can do the exercises without a login but with a login (which requires an email address) you can save progress and have a profile to share with others.

I would love to invite you to use Kids Email, it has awesome parental controls - no ad and no spam.

Please tell me that he's not a Nigerian prince.