All you need to start is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account and about half an hour. You can use your existing email account for this without affecting it.
To get started, you'll need any one of these desktop email programs installed on your computer: FossaMail or Thunderbird (FossaMail only works on 32-bit Windows computers). Email programs are another way to access the same email accounts you can access in a browser (like GMail), but provide extra features.
If you are already have one of these, you can skip to Step 1.b.