If emails are an indispensable component of your e-correspondence with business colleagues or relatives, you would be better off using a mailbox with your own domain name and an email provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based service that involves limitations as to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any software app – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to check the emails locally 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 mail server. Furthermore, you’ll be able to use plenty of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still check your email messages since they will be on your desktop or handheld device.