In case email messages are an important component of your online communication with business partners or relatives, you would be better off using an email with your very own personal domain and an email service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that entails limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to view the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the mail server. Plus, you will be able to take advantage of plenty of other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a temporary predicament with your Internet access, you can still check your emails as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.