There’re plenty of web-based email service providers that you can resort to, but using an email address with your own domain name will provide you with more credibility if you have a company, for example, not to mention that with web-based email services there are limitations on the size of the attachments that you can receive or send. If you use an email service that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, you won’t come across such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your PC to check your emails, including Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail. You can even set up a mailbox on your phone. The difference between the two email protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed locally at your end, but remains on the mail server, while with POP3, the message is downloaded to your computer, unless you configure the program in such a way as to leave a copy on the server.