In case email messages are an important component of your correspondence with business associates or family members, it may be better to use an email account with your own domain and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, rather than using a web-based service that involves restrictions in regards to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to see the emails at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the email server. Besides, you will be able to use many other useful options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary predicament with your Internet access, you can still check your emails since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.