Email change and assistance

Hate to be a doorknob but I really need a bit of help on something quite basic I hope. I'm planning to change ISPs from a piddly no-name company to Comcast because I believe they are relatively fast/cheap (I'm in Boulder, Colorado). I would like to keep Outlook as my email program because I have a large achive and I'm used to the folders, sorting, general features...Question is, is there a company (aol, yahoo, google, whoever??) where I can use their mail server (have an @aol.com email or something) for free and still use Outlook to manipulate my mail. I could obviously use @comcast.net but I don't expect to be with them for the rest of my life either, and don't want to hassle with the address change again down the road. Know what I mean? Sorry to be so wordy but I would surely appreciate some advice. Thanks!!!

 

There's Hotmail (basically owned by MicroSlop), Gmail (Google), Yahoo mail.

 

Gmail works great with Outlook - I use it at home this way, and you can also access it web-bassed if you are away from home and do not have Outlook software to access it from.

You can create a free Gmail account here. On the middle right hand side click the link "Create an account now" and follow the instructions step by step. https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/&hl=en

Once you have your Gmail account, to set up Outlook to access it, see the instructions in this link
http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et040605.htm

If you get stuck in the process, feel free to post up your questions in this thread