In case emails are an indivisible component of your correspondence with business colleagues or family members, you would be better off using an email account with your very own personal domain name and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, rather than relying on a web-based email service that involves limitations as to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to check the emails 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 saved on the email server. On top of that, you’ll be able to take advantage of a lot of other handy options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that if there is a temporary predicament with your Internet connection, you can still view your email messages as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.