In case email messages are a vital part of your online correspondence with business colleagues or family members, you would be better off using an email with your own domain name and a mail service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based email service that entails limitations with regard to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to check the emails at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the mail server. In addition, you will be able to use lots of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that in case there’s a temporary issue with your Internet service, you can still check your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.