In case emails are an indispensable component of your online communication with business colleagues or relatives, it would be better if you used an email account with your own personal domain name and a mail service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, instead of relying on a web-based service that entails restrictions in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to view the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. Furthermore, you will be able to take advantage of many other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary problem with your Internet service, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.