There’re a lot of web-based email service providers that you can resort to, but having an email account with your own domain will provide you with more credibility if you are running a company, for instance, not to mention that with web-based services there are limitations 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 protocols, you won’t come across such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your PC to check your mails, including Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook. You can even set up an email account 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, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded on your personal computer, unless you configure the program in such a way as to keep a copy on the server.