If emails are an essential part of your online communication with business associates or family members, it might be better to use an email account with your own domain and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, rather than using a web-based email service that involves restrictions as to the size of the attachments. In this way, 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 email messages 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 saved on the email server. Besides, you will be able to use many other useful options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a temporary problem with your Internet service, you can still see your emails as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.