If email messages are an integral part of your electronic communication with business colleagues or relatives, it would be better if you used a mailbox with your very own personal domain and a provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than relying on a web-based service that involves limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to check the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the mail server. Moreover, you will be able to take advantage of a lot of other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief predicament with your Internet connection, you can still examine your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.