If email messages are a vital component of your correspondence with business partners or relatives, it would be better if you used an email account with your own personal domain name and an email service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that entails restrictions in regards to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any software – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to see the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the email server. Furthermore, you will be able to make use of lots of other useful options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there’s a temporary predicament with your Internet access, you can still see your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.