If emails are an indispensable part of your communication with business associates or family members, it might be better to use an email address with your own personal domain name and a mail service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 protocols, instead of relying on a web-based service that entails limitations with regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any software program – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. What’s more, you will be able to use many other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a brief issue with your Internet access, you can still examine your emails as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.