The email Catch-22

If you want to open an email account with one of the main providers, e.g. Microsoft or Gooble’s Hotmail, you need to jump through a series of hoops in the name of security.
    No. 1 is a requirement to have another email account, to which a message can be sent with a button to click on to confirm your alternative address.
    No alternative email account, you’re screwed and you can’t have email account with the provider you approached. And they’re all using this same system.