If emails are an integral component of your communication with business colleagues or family members, it might be better to use an email account with your own personal domain name and a provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, instead of using a web-based service that involves restrictions as to the size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to access your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any software program – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to examine the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the email server. Furthermore, you will be able to use a lot of other useful options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still view your emails since they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.