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Email address (email) – an individual address that is assigned to each user to receive emails. An email consists of a unique mail username, an "@" sign to indicate that it is an email address, and a domain name.

Email is as important a communication tool as the telephone. E-mail is used for communication at work, for registration in social networks and instant messengers, for purchases in online stores, for official requests to government agencies.

In total, there are more than 4 billion mail accounts in the world for 7.9 billion of the world's population. Of course, not every resident has an e-mail, but some users have 5 e-mail boxes for different purposes.

Addresses are personal and corporate. Personal emails are used for personal communication, shopping in online stores, receiving newsletters.

To start a personal mail, you need to register on the website of one of the popular mail providers: Gmail, Mail.ru, Yandex. Mail, Rambler. In this case, the domain of the selected provider will be present in the received email address. For example, [email protected].

Corporate mail is used for business purposes: to communicate and exchange information with colleagues, clients or partners. Unlike personal mail, in a corporate address, instead of the domain name of the mail client, the domain of the company (the address of its website) is indicated. For example, [email protected].

In addition, corporate mail with the appropriate authentication settings can be used for email newsletters. Sending mass mailings from personal mail is not worth it.

How to create a personal email account

To create an e-mail, you need a unique username consisting of Latin characters and a password that protects the mail. The unique username + the "@" sign + the domain to which the mail is attached – this is the email address.

All email addresses must be unique to accurately identify the recipient. That is why now it is impossible to register mail, for example, [email protected] – this address is already taken by some user. But if ivan.ivanov deletes his Gmail box, the name will be free again and you can take it.

Different domains can have the same username. For example, [email protected] and [email protected].

In mail, you can use Latin letters, the underscore character "_", sometimes a period. The characters that can be used are limited by the RFC protocols, these are the general rules for using characters on the Internet. The mailer, as a rule, indicates which characters can and cannot be used in the login. Invalid special characters will be underlined by the mail service during mailbox creation.

Here are the character limits in Mail.ru Mail. Other providers are about the same.

For example, let's create an email on the Mail.ru Mail website.
1. We go to the main Mail.ru Mail.
2. Select "Create a box" near the "Entrance to the mail" window.
3. We get to the main page for creating an account in Mail.ru Mail.
4. Fill out the form for creating a mailbox.

Mail.ru Mail registration form

5. We go into the mail using the login-password pair that was entered during registration.
6. Email is ready. You can specify it in the registration forms, subscribe to mailing lists – you will receive letters.

In order for the letters to come, it is important to accurately indicate the email address. If at least one character is typed when filling out the mail, the mail will be sent to another person or returned to the sender with the message "There is no such email address."

To create mail, a pair of login and password is enough. But modern mail systems often ask for a phone number or a backup e-mail address so that they can regain access to mail if the user forgets their password. They are also asked to fill in the name, gender, date of birth, so that the service identifies the user who registers the mail.

The name will appear in the "Sender" field. If this field is not filled in, the email address will be duplicated in the "Sender" field.

Tips for choosing a personal email address

1. If you are going to use mail for official correspondence such as communicating with customers or looking for work, it is better to make mail with a first and last name.
2. If you have a popular surname, you can add numbers to your email login, as your name may already be taken.
3. If you are going to use mail to receive freelance orders, enter your phone number in your mail login – it will be convenient for you to dictate mail by phone and in person.
4. The mail login can be your nickname on the Internet, that is, your nickname. This nickname can be used in the portfolio, as a username in social networks. With the help of a nickname, your account on different platforms can be found through the search. If you start mail to a nickname, there is more chance that the mailing address will be unique. Example: ksoftware is the blog of Nikolay Toverovskiy, a well-known expert in interface design and project management. This is the address of his mail.
5. If you want to remain anonymous, choose any word for the mail login and do not fill in the name.
6. Remember that it should be convenient to dictate mail and write it down by hand – with such mail, the probability that all the necessary letters will reach you is much higher.

Mail.ru mail has compiled a memo on how to organize mail and how to use it.

Email Password Tips

The email password is one of the most important passwords, since having access to the mail, attackers will be able to reset the passwords of all other services and sites that are registered to this mail.On the one hand, the password must be reliable, and on the other – it is important to remember it.

Some sites create additional password requirements: do not use passwords that have already been used, be sure to use both numbers, and letters, and special lines, use the letters of a different register.

When registering the postal service itself will show additional requirements for creating a password.

That's what Mail.Ru Mail is thinking about the standard QWERT password

Several tips from developers from Kaspersky Studio:

1. The password must contain 8 characters.
2. It is better not to specify personal information of the date of birth in the password – it is easy to learn from the profile in the social network.
3. Password is better to change at least once every 3 months.
4. You should not use the same passwords on different services.

How to find out your email address and password

An email address can always be viewed in the Personal Personal Service Office, and in the Mail Settings, change the password. As a rule, the password cannot be seen, you can only restore it. To do this, or enter an old password, or enter a backup email, or a phone number. A temporary password will come to the mail or phone, with which you can enter the mail account and install a new password in the "settings".

When creating corporate e-mail, all these tasks perform a system administrator, and the employee receives a pair of login-password and can go to the mail already created. Read the article on how to make corporate mail on your domain.

How to create an electronic box on Gmail

1. Add to the main page of the Gmail Major Service page.
2. Click on the "Create Account" button.
3.In the name, unique email address and password.

First Gmail Mail Mail Screen

4. The phone number or backup mail. This is not necessarily, but without them it will not be possible to restore access to the mail.

Filling backup password recovery methods in Gmail

5. The Gmail Privacy Policy Rules (without this, it will not be possible to create mail).

Important. Google constantly changes the appearance of the mailing creation screen, so when you register the mail, this path may look a little differently.