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