In case email messages are an essential component of your electronic communication with business colleagues or relatives, it might be better to use an email address with your very own personal domain and an email service provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP protocols, rather than relying on a web-based service that involves limitations with regards to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any software – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to view the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be left on the server. Furthermore, you will be able to make use of many other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there is a brief issue with your Internet access, you can still see your emails as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.