Email while in Burma

I hear that some email servers such as Gmail and Yahoo are often blocked in Burma. Can anyone suggest an email server that I can use to communicate with friends and family while I'm traveling in Burma? Thanks.

Rule of thumb-

Tell loved ones, no news, is good news!

Internet and electricity is spotty, in Yangon and Mandalay its best, but thats still slow as a dial up in 1990...

Gmail is best...Yahoo/MSN is blocked, as is the LP website.

a year ago i had problems with yahoo and hotmail and only could phone from yangoon, for 6usdol aminute. and sometimes from mandalay.
i could communicate a little via pm of this very site

Many services are blocked, but Internet places in Yangon and Mandalay know how to bypass the firewall.

I get several gmails a day from Myanmar and Mandalay. The problem is that most places are slow. Find a place in Yangon that is open later at night and the service is a little bit faster.

People have posted on here during their time in Myanmar, I found it excrutiatingly slow in Mandalay, when it was working. Faster in Bagan and even faster in Yangon.

The more expensive hotels have satellite connections and a few of the internet cafes have either broadband or satellite. Other than those the lack of speed is quite frustrating and the fact that you need help with the workaround in order to bypass the censorship rules make it pretty much unusable. I don't know what extra limits they have imposed after the recent internet shutdown.
One way of getting short messages out is "article forwarding".... chose an uncensored site you can open easily and then post a brief comment...

article forwarding

As #3 said most internet places have ways of bypassing the blocking of major email sites...however, the hotels that have internet service usually do not provide this service. One work-around is to set up an email account before you leave with a lesser known ISP (internet service provider) or email only website. I had no trouble connecting to my local provider (inch.com).

One way is to use the internet cafés email account. You can a send quick short email to your relatives, so they know that everything is all right. The downside is that relatives can't reach you, if they need to do that. This is a cheap fast and reliable solution.