If emails are a key component of your e-correspondence with business partners or relatives, it may be better to use a mailbox with your own domain and a mail service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, instead of relying on a web-based service that involves restrictions with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to access your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any program – Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, and so forth. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to view the emails locally at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the email server. In addition, you will be able to take advantage of many other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief problem with your Internet service, you can still see your email messages since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.