In case email messages are an essential component of your electronic communication with business partners or family members, you might be better off using a mailbox with your very own personal domain name and an email provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, rather than relying on a web-based service that involves restrictions with regard to the 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 – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. What’s more, you will be able to make use of plenty of other useful options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that in case there is a brief problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.