If emails are a fundamental component of your electronic communication with business associates or relatives, it might be better to use an email address with your very own personal domain name and an email service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 protocols, rather than using a web-based email service that involves restrictions as to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any software program – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to see the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the email server. On top of that, you will be able to take advantage of plenty of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still examine your email messages as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.