In case email messages are a fundamental component of your communication with business associates or family members, you may be better off using an email account with your very own personal domain and a provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP protocols, instead of relying on a web-based email service that entails limitations with regards to the size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to access your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any app – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to see the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the server. Moreover, you will be able to use a lot of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that in case there’s a brief problem with your Internet connection, you can still check your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.