If emails are a vital component of your electronic correspondence with business colleagues or family members, it would be better if you used an email address with your own personal domain name and a mail service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, instead of using a web-based service that involves limitations in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any software – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to view the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the email server. Moreover, you will be able to use many other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a temporary predicament with your Internet service, you can still view your emails since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.