No, we currently don’t support POP or IMAP access to the myUSI email server.

The POP and IMAP protocols are insecure because they generally send your username and password in clear text over the Internet.

Because myUSI contains much more confidential information than just your email (i.e. Your transcript, home address, marital status, for example), USI would like you to always use the secure web login provided through the myUSI website. This means that you can only get your email through the myUSI web interface and can not use external clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, Mac’s Mail.app, and others.

This process also allows us to post announcements in the portal so we do not have to “spam” everyone’s email inbox with important University communications.

There is a chance, as our technologies and services change and evolve, that remote access to myUSI mail using other email clients or phones may be possible. However, as of right now, there is no expected change.

If you are using a modern phone, you have the option of going to https://lite.usi.edu with your phone’s web browser to use the Lite Mail web interface.

While we don’t encourage it, you can forward your email to another service that is supported by your phone and/or carrier (see the Forward Email section of the Student Class Schedule for more information on forwarding your email).  As is stated in the Class Schedule “If you forward to a non-functioning or non-existent email account, you could potentially lose important email messages. It is your responsibility to periodically test the forward to see that it works.“