Setup Email Account

Know and understating how your email service works.
As a general rule 98.9% of those who get a service through the ISP tend to get a email address from that provider for example.

Qwest now Century link or AT&T
When you by there service your get a CD with there set-up information. On the disk are the pre-setup details for the DSL connection with other related software.It also comes with email set-up that walks you trough setting it up.
There  are allot of other companies that do the same thing with there customer and there procedures are the same they all use a proprietary client software for there email to set-up your account.

WARNING! IF the ISP ever makes a change to the host sever client you may lose all your email contacts information. There is a better way!

My first choice is to get a Free Google account the first step is to create that Google account with the same information you used to setup your account with that ISP's email service.
EXAMPLE:   billyjoe@centurylink.net Change to billjoe@gmail.com or any other free service of choice.

Next step once you have done this now you want you to get your email  from the @centurylink to your gamil account so you can keep all your contacts address backed up at all times eventually you will want all those to become part of the Gmail account.

How to step the Gmail account to get these emails sent to this account.