There’re a lot of web-based email service providers that you can resort to, but having an email with your own personal domain name will provide you with more credibility if you have a company, for instance, 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 POP3 and IMAP email delivery protocols, you won’t come across such problems and you will be able to use any program on your personal computer to access your emails, including Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail. You can even set up an email account on your mobile device. The difference between the two protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed locally at your end, but remains on the 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.