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