In case emails are an essential part of your communication with business associates or relatives, you would be better off using a mailbox with your own personal domain name and a mail service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that entails restrictions in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to view the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the server. Furthermore, you’ll be able to take advantage of plenty of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a temporary predicament with your Internet access, you can still examine your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.