In case emails are an indivisible part of your e-communication with business associates or relatives, you would be better off using a mailbox with your very own personal domain and an email service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, rather than using a web-based email service that entails restrictions with regard to the size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to check the emails at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the email server. In addition, you’ll be able to use plenty of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a brief problem with your Internet access, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.