If email messages are an indivisible part of your correspondence with business associates or family members, it might be better to use an email with your own personal domain name and a mail service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 protocols, rather than using a web-based email service that involves restrictions with regards to the size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to access your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any client software – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to check the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the server. Furthermore, you will be able to take advantage of plenty of other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief problem with your Internet service, you can still check your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.