I know it's after the event for the OP, but I've found splitting email away from the connectivity provider is the smart thing to do.
The firm that hosts Jethro's site, does a freebie webmail and forwarding service I was looking at earlier. If you do separate the two, if one goes t1ts up it doesn't mangle the other.
GMail is passable (if nosey), Hotmail barely so and Yahoo in the UK has POP3 available. That's just a few of the free ones. If anyone wants a GMail invite feel free to PM me as I've got loads.
