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