There are a lot of 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 business, for instance, not to mention that with web-based email services there are limits on the size of the attachments that you can receive or send. In case you use an email service that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, you will not experience such problems and you’ll be able to use any software program on your personal computer to check your mails, including Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. You can even set up a mailbox on your smartphone. The difference between the two email protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed locally at your end, but remains on the server, while with POP3, the message is downloaded on your personal computer, unless you set up the program in such a way as to store a copy on the server.