In case email messages are a vital component of your communication with business partners or family members, you may be better off using an email with your very own personal domain name and a mail service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, instead of relying on a web-based service that entails restrictions as to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to check the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the server. In addition, you’ll be able to take advantage of plenty of other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary problem with your Internet service, you can still check your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.