If email messages are an indivisible component of your online correspondence with business partners or relatives, it would be better if you used an email account with your very own personal domain name and an email provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, instead of relying on a web-based service that entails limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any client software – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to see the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the server. Moreover, you will be able to make use of many other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still see your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.