In case emails are an essential component of your e-communication with business partners or relatives, it might be better to use an email account with your own domain and a provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, rather than relying on a web-based service that involves limitations as to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to examine the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the mail server. On top of that, you’ll be able to use lots of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still examine your emails since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.