In case email messages are a key part of your online communication with business associates or relatives, you may be better off using an email with your own personal domain name and a provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that involves limitations with regard to the size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to see the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. On top of that, you’ll be able to take advantage of many other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary problem with your Internet access, you can still view your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.