In case emails are an integral part of your communication with business partners or family members, you would be better off using an email address with your own personal domain and an email provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that involves limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. In addition, you will be able to use plenty of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a brief predicament with your Internet connection, you can still see your email messages as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.