In case email messages are an indivisible part of your correspondence with business colleagues or relatives, you may be better off using an email address with your own personal domain and an email provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than relying on a web-based service that involves restrictions with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to view the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. Besides, you’ll be able to take advantage of plenty of other useful options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a temporary issue with your Internet connection, you can still view your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.