In case email messages are an indispensable part of your online communication with business colleagues or family members, it may be better to use an email address with your own personal domain and a provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, instead of using a web-based service that entails limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any software app – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to see the emails at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the email server. What’s more, you will be able to use many other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there is a temporary issue with your Internet access, you can still examine your emails since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.