In case email messages are an essential part of your e-communication with business colleagues or relatives, it would be better to use an email address with your own domain and a mail service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based service that entails restrictions as to the size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to access your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any app – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to view the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. In addition, you will be able to take advantage of plenty of other useful options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a brief issue with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your email messages since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.