If email messages are an integral part of your electronic correspondence with business colleagues or family members, you would be better off using a mailbox with your very own personal domain and an email provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, instead of using a web-based service that entails limitations with regard to the size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to access your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to check the emails 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 saved on the mail server. What’s more, you will be able to use lots of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a temporary predicament with your Internet service, you can still examine your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.