I hesitate, since I am no geek, but 1&1 do email hosting for what looks like a sensible price. Would that be any good Ted?
http://order.1and1.co.uk/links/email-hosting.html
Bev.
Therefore the email hosting service that I have been asking for recommendations for must run IMAP, and, as I have said, offer high quality and reliability of service. It's a very straightforward question, and is not answered by recommendations to use methods which either I can not use, or which I find impossibly tedious to use, with my ISP.