If emails are a key part of your electronic correspondence with business associates or family members, it might be better to use a mailbox with your own personal domain name and an email provider that offers support for the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based service that entails limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your emails on any desktop or mobile device using any app – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to view the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all emails will be downloaded on the device, unless you choose a copy to be saved on the mail server. Plus, you will be able to make use of plenty of other useful options – contact groups, calendars, etc., not to mention that if there is a brief predicament with your Internet connectivity, you can still check your emails as they will be on your desktop or mobile device.
