In case emails are an integral component of your correspondence with business colleagues or family members, you may be better off using an email with your own personal domain and a provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, rather than using a web-based service that entails limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to check the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the server. Besides, you’ll be able to use many other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a brief predicament with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.