If emails are a vital component of your correspondence with business associates or family members, it might be better to use an email account with your own domain and a mail service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, rather than relying on a web-based email service that entails restrictions with regards to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any app – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to view the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the email server. On top of that, you will be able to take advantage of plenty of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that in case there is a temporary problem with your Internet service, you can still check your emails as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.