In case email messages are a key part of your online communication with business partners or family members, you might be better off using an email account with your own personal domain name and a provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than using a web-based email service that involves restrictions with regard to the size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to access your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any software – Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to examine the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the mail server. Besides, you’ll be able to make use of many other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that in case there’s a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still examine your email messages as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.