If email messages are an essential component of your e-communication with business colleagues or relatives, it would be better if you used an email address with your own personal domain name and a mail service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than relying on a web-based email service that involves restrictions with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to check the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. What’s more, you will be able to use a lot of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief issue with your Internet connection, you can still check your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.