If emails are a key part of your electronic correspondence with business associates or family members, you would be better off using an email address with your own domain name and a provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based service that involves restrictions in regards to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to access your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to view the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the server. Also, you will be able to take advantage of a lot of other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there is a brief issue with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.