There’re numerous web-based mail service providers that you can use, but using an email with your very own personal domain name will provide you with more credibility if you have a company, for instance, not to mention that with web-based services there are limitations on the size of the attachments that you can receive or send. In case you use an email service that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email delivery protocols, you will not run into such problems and you will be able to use any program on your personal computer to access your mailboxes, including Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail. You can even set up a mailbox on your phone. The difference between the two 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 personal computer, unless you set up the program in such a way as to leave a copy on the server.