If emails are a fundamental component of your online communication with business partners or relatives, it would be better if you used an email account with your very own personal domain and an email service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, instead of using a web-based service that entails restrictions as 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 software – Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, and so forth. 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 the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the server. On top of that, you’ll be able to use lots of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet service, you can still view your email messages since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.