If you have a mailbox with your very own personal domain instead of a 3rd-party one, you’ll be able to make use of an email app such as Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook to check and administer your email messages. The benefit of using such apps is that they also offer other features, such as calendars and address books. There are two different email delivery protocols that you can select from when you set up the app of your choice to access your email account – POP3 and IMAP. With the first one, all messages that are received will be downloaded on your device – desktop or mobile, unless you decide to keep a copy on the email server. With the second protocol, the email messages will be displayed locally at your end, but they will remain on the server all the time, so you can set up the account on multiple devices and see the email messages from any location. You will also be able to examine old email messages in case there’s a problem with your Internet service, which is an immense advantage over a web-based email service.