There’re lots of web-based email providers that you can use, but having a mailbox with your own domain will grant you more credibility if you have 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 send or receive. In case you use an email service that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, you will not come across such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your PC to check your email messages, including Thunderbird, Apple Mail 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 locally at your end, but remains on the email server, while 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.