If emails are an indivisible part of your online communication with business partners or relatives, it would be better to use an email with your own personal domain and an email provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based service that involves restrictions as to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to view the emails 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 email server. Also, you’ll be able to take advantage of many other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet connection, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.