In case email messages are an important component of your correspondence with business partners or relatives, it might be better to use a mailbox with your very own personal domain and an email provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, instead of using a web-based email service that entails limitations with regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any client software – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so forth. 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 the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. Furthermore, you’ll be able to use plenty of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there is a brief issue with your Internet service, you can still check your emails since they will be on your desktop or handheld device.