In case email messages are a vital part of your electronic communication with business associates or family members, it would be better to use a mailbox with your own domain name and a mail service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based service that involves limitations with regards to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any client software – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to see the emails at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the email server. In addition, you will be able to make use of many other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a temporary issue with your Internet service, you can still see your email messages as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.