If email messages are an integral component of your electronic communication with business partners or family members, you would be better off using an email with your very own personal domain and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, rather than relying on a web-based email service that involves restrictions with regards to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any client software – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to see the emails at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the email server. On top of that, you will be able to use lots of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.