If email messages are an indispensable component of your communication with business associates or relatives, it may be better to use an email address with your own personal domain and an email service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 protocols, instead of relying on a web-based email service that entails restrictions as to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any software app – Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to examine the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the mail server. Also, you will be able to make use of plenty of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there’s a brief issue with your Internet service, you can still examine your email messages as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.