In case you have an email with your own domain name and not a 3rd-party one, you’ll be able to make use of an email application such as Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook to check and manage your email messages. The benefit of using such applications is that they also offer other features, such as calendars and address books. There are two different email delivery protocols that you can choose from when you set up the application of your choice to access your email account – POP3 and IMAP. With the first protocol, all email messages that are received will be downloaded to your device – desktop or mobile, unless you decide to keep a copy on the server. With the second protocol, the email messages will be displayed at your end, but they will remain on the server at all times, so you can set up the email account on numerous devices and access the email messages from any place. You will also be able to access old email messages in case there is a problem with your Internet access, which is an advantage over web-based email services.