In case emails are an important component of your e-correspondence with business partners or family members, it would be better to use an email account with your own personal domain name and an email service provider that supports the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, instead of resorting to a web-based service that involves limitations with regard to the size of the attachments. Thus, you’ll be able to check your mails on any desktop or mobile device using any software – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to view the emails at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be stored on the mail server. Also, you’ll be able to use many other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that in case there is a brief issue with your Internet connectivity, you can still see your email messages since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.