If emails are a key component of your electronic communication with business colleagues or family members, you may be better off using a mailbox with your very own personal domain name and a mail service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, rather than using a web-based email service that involves limitations with regard to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any software application – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to see the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the mail server. Also, you will be able to take advantage of lots of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there is a brief issue with your Internet connection, you can still view your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.