What are the methods by which I can access my USC email account?
You may access your email account either via USC Web Mail at https://email.usc.edu or by using any desktop email client that supports either the IMAP or POP protocol. ITS provides documentation on supported desktop email clients. Unsupported and PDA email clients should work if you use either POP or IMAP, authenticated SMTP, and set their incoming and outgoing mail servers to email.usc.edu.