If email messages are an essential component of your e-communication with business associates or relatives, you would be better off using an email account with your very own personal domain name and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based service that involves limitations in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to see the emails 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 kept on the server. In addition, you will be able to make use of plenty of other useful options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there is a temporary predicament with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your email messages since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.