There’re lots of web-based mail service providers that you can resort to, but using an email with your own domain will grant you more credibility if you are running a company, for example, not to mention that with web-based email services there are limitations on the maximum 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 have such problems and you will be able to use any program on your PC to check your mailboxes, including Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook. You can even set up a mailbox on your mobile phone. The difference between the two protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed at your end, but remains on the mail server, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded on your personal computer, unless you set up the program in such a way as to leave a copy on the server.