In case emails are an integral part of your online correspondence with business associates or relatives, it may be better to use an email account with your own domain and an email provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, rather than relying on a web-based service that involves limitations with regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any software – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to view the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the mail server. Besides, you will be able to make use of a lot of other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief issue with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your email messages since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.