FastMail.FM’s free account provides the best free email service on the internet. You can send and receive email using Outlook Express, Netscape, Eudora, and so on, and lots of help is provided on in their FAQ. https://fastmail.fm/docs/faqparts/ExternalMail.html#ExternalAccess
They have been providing email services for four years, so they aren’t likely to go away any time soon.
The paid upgrades are even better. You get your own subdomain with an infinite number of addresses, and really good protection from spam. You can also pay to use your personal domain name, so it’s good for clubs and businesses and stuff.
So far on MouthShut there’s 5 other reviews. One is almost certainly by the guy that owns a competitor and was banned by the world’s largest email discussion site for spamming, one is by someone who only signed up that day and didn’t know that they could send and receive with Outlook Express, and 3 were by actual FastMail.FM users and were all 5 stars. Listen to the people that actually use the site.