In case emails are an important component of your correspondence with business associates or family members, it would be better to use a mailbox with your very own personal domain and an email provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, instead of using a web-based email service that entails restrictions as to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your email accounts on any desktop or mobile device using any software – Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to view the emails 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 kept on the mail server. Also, you will be able to make use of a lot of other useful options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there’s a brief problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still check your emails since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.