Mail.com does not require a phone or second email account.  We've had the same problem and found this site.

Chris (Marcellus)

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Stacy Pasche <spasche@benzieshoreslibrary.org> wrote:
I was helping a patron obtain an email account today and was a little
surprised to see that most of the major free web-based email services
now require either a second email account or mobile phone number to
activate the account.  The woman needing email (for unemployment
filing) has no previous email account and has no mobile phone.  She
can't be alone in this situation.

Does anyone know of any web-based email services that still don't
require mobile phone or previous email?

Thanks!

--
Stacy Pasche,
Assistant Library Director
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