There are lots of web-based email providers that you can resort to, but using 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 email services there are restrictions on the size of the attachments that you can send or receive. If you use an email service that supports the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, you won’t stumble upon such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your PC to access your mails, including Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. 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 mail server, while with POP3, the message is downloaded to your personal computer, unless you set up the program in such a way as to save a copy on the server.