Ms Outlook

i had idea of collect certain information through e mail, that is I send an e mail when replied the information update themselve to a MS access database buid for that collection.

Through reading how i can make it happen, i came across an article describe how you can do it but i was suppose to have an outlook e mail address.

How can i configure that outlook to have that e mail address? I use a laptop for everything.

What other ways i can do/ solve the above problem/idea?

and if i want to use yahoo adress, is that possible?

Thanks.