gmail?

[SteveDallas]

The gmail service itself is fine--in particular the spam filtering is better than any other product I tried which was in my price range for personal use. (Which was not limited to free products, but did not extent to high-end corporate solutions.)

I agree with glatt. Think of it this way. What plumber would buy a van to use for his business, and have the Ford logo on the side of it in the same size as the name of his business? This is what you're doing when you use an email address with @aol.com, @gmail.com, etc. for your business.

However, if you own your own domain, you can set up Google Apps for Your Domain and run the gmail system (including POP and IMAP access) with your own address. That's actually what I do for my personal email, and I strongly recommend it. Buying the domain itself is a small expense (I'm talking $15 per year small) so there's IMO no excuse for any business not to have one. The standard version of Google Apps is free. They have a higher-end version with some fancier features that costs money.