In case you have an email account with your own domain instead of a third-party one, you’ll be able to make use of an email application such as Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail to check and manage your email messages. The advantage of using such apps is that you can also take advantage of other features, such as address books and calendars. There are two email retrieval protocols that you can select from when you set up the application of your liking to access your mailbox – POP3 and IMAP. With the first protocol, all email messages that are received will be downloaded on your device – desktop or mobile, unless you decide to store a copy on the email server. With the second one, the messages will be displayed at your end, but they will remain on the server at all times, so you can set up the account on multiple devices and view the email messages from any place. You will also be able to access old emails if there’s a predicament with your Internet connectivity, which is an enormous advantage over web-based email services.