If emails are an integral component of your online communication with business associates or relatives, you would be better off using an email account with your own domain name and a mail service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 protocols, instead of relying on a web-based service that entails restrictions in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to check the emails at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the mail server. On top of that, you will be able to use lots of other valuable options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that if there is a temporary issue with your Internet connection, you can still check your emails as they will be on your desktop or handheld device.