In case email messages are a key component of your online correspondence with business associates or relatives, it might be better to use an email address with your own personal domain name and an email service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that involves limitations in regards to the size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any client software – Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to examine the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the mail server. Moreover, you’ll be able to use many other useful options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a temporary issue with your Internet service, you can still examine your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.