What is a good simple free easy to use e-mail service?

Yahoo is giving me fits with all their new changes, so I made a g-mail account. Turns out it is even worse. Now I have my yahoo mail being transferred to the g-mail account, and disappearing from my yahoo account. I fixed it to leave e-mails on my yahoo account, but even though it's been "fixed" it only leaves about 15 e-mails on it from today and yesterday. That's it! This is really driving me nuts. I'd like to close them both and don't know how to do that, and retain an e-mail that does not have all the crazy new "options". Just a simple get, see,send, and store account like yahoo used to be.

I will greatly appreciate any help.