In case email messages are an essential part of your online communication with business colleagues or relatives, it would be better to use an email address with your own personal domain and a provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, rather than relying on a web-based service that entails 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 – Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to view the emails at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. Additionally, you will be able to make use of lots of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there is a brief predicament with your Internet connectivity, you can still see your email messages as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.