If email messages are a key part of your communication with business colleagues or family members, you may be better off using an email address with your own personal domain and an email service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based service that entails limitations as to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll 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 onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. Plus, you’ll be able to take advantage of lots of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there’s a temporary issue with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your email messages since they will be on your desktop or handheld device.