There are numerous web-based email providers that you can resort to, but using an email account 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 limits 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 protocols, you will not experience such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your personal computer to check your mails, including Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook. You can even set up a mailbox on your mobile phone. 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 store a copy on the server.