If email messages are a fundamental part of your communication with business colleagues or family members, you might be better off using a mailbox with your own personal domain and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email delivery protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based email service that involves restrictions in regards to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so on. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to see the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the mail server. Moreover, you’ll be able to use many other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there is a brief predicament with your Internet connectivity, you can still check your email messages since they will be on your desktop or handheld device.