If email messages are an indispensable component of your online communication with business associates or relatives, you may be better off using an email account with your own personal domain name and an email provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP protocols, rather than relying on a web-based email service that involves restrictions as to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any app – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to check the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the server. Moreover, you will be able to use plenty of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a temporary problem with your Internet connection, you can still view your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.