In case email messages are a key part of your online communication with business associates or family members, you might be better off using an email address with your very own personal domain and a mail service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, instead of relying on a web-based service that involves restrictions with regards to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to access your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the server. On top of that, you will be able to use a lot of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there is a temporary problem with your Internet service, you can still see your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.