If emails are an important component of your online correspondence with business associates or family members, it might be better to use an email address with your very own personal domain name and a mail service provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email retrieval protocols, instead of using a web-based email service that entails limitations with regards to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any client software – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so on. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to see the emails at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the server. On top of that, you will be able to use many other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there is a brief predicament with your Internet access, you can still check your emails as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.