Trust email service provider?

In order to keep my emails centralize, I've been thinking of using my shared hosting service or even Gmail for storage and accessing them thru IMAP. The question now is, do you trust Gmail, Yahoo, Live, etc enough to keep potentially sensitive material on their server? I'm asking because I do most of my banking online and also receive electronic statements from time to time.

 

Nothing is 100%. Any bank worth their salt should never send details to you in emails. Hell, they shouldn't contact you by email period. Mine never asked for my email when I set up online banking and I wouldn't have provided it regardless, though this may vary between each institution. Any problems, I would go to a branch personally. I presume you know what phishing is

Another thing with email, is if someone gets into your account. If they find out which online stores you use, they could try the old "forgot password" routine, steal details and/or purchase goods, change addresses and whatnot before you know it

That's why I check my account online daily; the amount of online shopping I do

 

I've used forget password many many times. Someone with access to the mail server can easily use this reset your password. Sure nothing is 100% but is this me being too anal? There are a lot of disgruntled employees at Yahoo and even more so at Microsoft so I can't help but think this way.

 

Go dig a 300 Mhz system out of the trash and turn it into a Linux email server. You just need to fetch the various accounts and then serve them out with imap, you have no need for using it to handle smtp.