In case email messages are an important part of your online communication with business colleagues or family members, you might be better off using an email address with your own personal domain and a provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based service that involves limitations in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any software app – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the email server. What’s more, you will be able to make use of plenty of other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary problem with your Internet access, you can still examine your email messages since they will be on your desktop or handheld device.