If emails are an indispensable component of your communication with business partners or family members, it may be better to use an email address with your very own personal domain and a provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that entails limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to access your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to view the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the email server. Besides, you will be able to use lots of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief issue with your Internet service, you can still view your email messages as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.