If emails are a key part of your online correspondence with business partners or family members, it might be better to use an email account with your own domain name and an email provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, rather than relying on a web-based email service that involves restrictions in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any software program – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to see the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. Furthermore, you will be able to take advantage of many other useful options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that in case there’s a temporary predicament with your Internet service, you can still check your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.