If emails are an essential component of your online communication with business colleagues or relatives, it might be better to use an email address with your own domain and a mail service provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email delivery protocols, instead of relying on a web-based email service that involves limitations in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. 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, while with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. What’s more, you will be able to take advantage of plenty of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet connection, you can still check your emails since they will be on your desktop or handheld device.