Best free e-mail service that I ever see is G-Mail https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue= https://mail.google.com/mail/
(More than 2GB of mailbox space, spam report, google talk, multilanguage...)
Microsoft Outlook support GMail, but you have to put options correctly, you have tutorial, in gmail i menu item settings>Forwarding and pop>Configuration instructions