In case email messages are a vital part of your correspondence with business partners or family members, it might be better to use a mailbox with your own domain name and an email service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, rather than using a web-based service that involves limitations with regard to the size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any app – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the email server. What’s more, you will be able to make use of many other handy options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still check your emails since they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.