In case emails are a key part of your correspondence with business partners or family members, it may be better to use a mailbox with your own domain and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, instead of using a web-based email service that involves restrictions with regards to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to check the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. Plus, you will be able to make use of many other handy options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that in case there’s a brief issue with your Internet access, you can still view your email messages as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.