If emails are an integral part of your correspondence with business associates or relatives, you might be better off using a mailbox with your own personal domain name and an email provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, instead of using a web-based service that involves restrictions with regards to the size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to check your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to view the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. Besides, you will be able to take advantage of lots of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there is a brief problem with your Internet access, you can still check your emails since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.