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G Mail no doubt is the best. I use G Mail for my personal use and I find its POP and SMTP (Secure Port 465) excellent as it can overcome the blocking of SMTP Port 25 by some ISPs. Google also provides you Google Apps Standard FOC if you have your own domain name and you can create 25 Users each having 7.2GB space and GMail Web Mail interface. Moreover they also give you Google Talk with your own domain name as well as Secure POP and Secure SMTP. This ensures your emails do not get bounced even if your ISP is black listed.
Yahoo does not give you POP/SMTP to enable use of MS Outlook.
GMail is undoubtedly the best.
If you wish to use Google Apps with your own domain, you register with them and change the MX Record with your Web Hosting Provider. You continue wep page hosting with your existing provider and use Google Apps for your Mail. You get much more space. You can use remote retrieval of Gmail to retrieve all the emails in your existing webmail. If you want to access your emails by using webmail.yourdomain.com or gmail.yourdomain.com you can create/change the Canonical Name (CNAME) with your existing host. Hosts usually allow you to change MX Records through front end panels to point to Google Apps servers to handle your email. However, some hosts do not allow you to create or modify CNAME from front end but do it on back end when you request them through their support. Getting Google to handle your own domain emails is the best experience.