In case email messages are a vital component of your communication with business colleagues or relatives, it would be better if you used an email account with your own personal domain name and a provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based service that entails restrictions with regard to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. On top of that, you will be able to use lots of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet connectivity, you can still see your emails as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.