If email messages are an integral part of your electronic communication with business colleagues or relatives, you might be better off using a mailbox with your own domain and an email service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that involves restrictions in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to check your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any application – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you will be able to view the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with the POP3 protocol, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the email server. Furthermore, you will be able to make use of a lot of other useful options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary predicament with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.