There’re lots of web-based email providers that you can resort to, but using a mailbox with your very own personal domain name will grant you more credibility if you have a business, for instance, not to mention that with web-based services there are restrictions on the maximum size of the attachments that you can send or receive. In case you use an email service that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, you won’t have such problems and you will be able to use any software program on your personal computer to access your emails, including Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook. You can even set up an email account on your mobile device. The difference between the two email protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed at your end, but remains on the server, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded onto your PC, unless you configure the program in such a way as to save a copy on the server.