If email messages are an essential part of your online correspondence with business colleagues or relatives, you would be better off using a mailbox with your own personal domain name and a mail service provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP protocols, instead of relying on a web-based email service that entails limitations as to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you will be able to access your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc. With the IMAP protocol, you’ll be able to check the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all emails will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the server. What’s more, you’ll be able to use plenty of other handy options – contact groups, calendars, and so on, not to mention that in case there’s a temporary problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still examine your emails as they’ll be on your desktop or mobile device.
