http://www.rootshell.be provides free shell accounts on a unix system. It also gives you an email account (your_id@rootshell.be). You can send/receive mails from/to this account. One can login using the java applet in the web browser and also through ssh secure shell client. One more feature is that it you can also have a web page with the url something like(www.rootshell.be/~your_id)