There’re numerous web-based email providers that you can use, but using an email with your own personal domain name will grant you more credibility if you are running a business, for example, not to mention that with web-based email services there are restrictions 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 will not encounter such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your computer to access your mailboxes, including Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook. You can even set up a mailbox on your smartphone. The difference between the two email 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 on your PC, unless you configure the program in such a way as to save a copy on the server.