If emails are an integral part of your communication with business partners or relatives, it would be better if you used an email with your own domain name and a mail service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, rather than using a web-based email service that involves restrictions in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to check the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. On top of that, you’ll be able to use many other useful options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still see your email messages as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.