If email messages are an important part of your correspondence with business associates or relatives, you might be better off using an email account with your very own personal domain and a mail service provider that supports the POP3 and IMAP email delivery protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based email service that entails limitations in regards to the size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to access your email messages on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you will be able to see the email messages at your end, but they will be on the server all the time, whereas with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded to the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the email server. Plus, you’ll be able to take advantage of a lot of other valuable options – calendars, contact groups, etc., not to mention that if there is a brief issue with your Internet access, you can still see your email messages as they’ll be on your desktop or handheld device.