If emails are a vital part of your online communication with business partners or relatives, it might be better to use a mailbox with your very own personal domain name and a mail service provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP protocols, instead of relying on a web-based email service that entails limitations as to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to see the email messages 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 stored on the server. Also, you’ll be able to take advantage of plenty of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still see your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.