You can download your email to your computer using either the IMAP or POP3 protocol. These protocols allow you to read email messages delivered to your IS AMBIS mailbox with programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, and others. Managing email through these programs may suit some users better than managing it directly in a web browser.

Unlike the older POP3 protocol, IMAP allows access to your messages from multiple computers. IMAP does not require downloading messages to a local computer, so messages remain accessible from any device you use. With IMAP, you can also access multiple folders within a single mailbox. In your email client, you can simultaneously see Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts, Deleted Items, and other folders you use in IS AMBIS.

IMAP also enables more efficient access to messages, so downloading—for example—only selected attachments is faster even with a slow connection.

To use these protocols (IMAP or POP3), you need to set up a secondary password in the application:

This secondary password is considered less secure than the primary IS AMBIS login password, which is why it must be entered separately.