If emails are an indivisible component of your online correspondence with business associates or family members, you would be better off using an email address with your own personal domain name and an email provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, rather than using a web-based service that involves restrictions with regard to the size of the attachments. Thus, you will be able to check your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any app – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, and so forth. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to see the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, while with the POP3 protocol, all emails will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the mail server. In addition, you will be able to make use of lots of other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a temporary problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still see your email messages since they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.