If email messages are an important component of your correspondence with business colleagues or relatives, you might be better off using an email with your very own personal domain name and an email service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than using a web-based service that entails restrictions as to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to examine the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the server. On top of that, you’ll be able to make use of lots of other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief problem with your Internet access, you can still check your email messages as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.