Nowadays, no one can do without email. Network communication has become widespread. Many issues - both business and personal - are resolved in this way. It's convenient, fast and doesn't require much effort. This method of information exchange is available to every user who has a computer and the Internet. Therefore, it is important to know what an email address is and how to write it correctly. Thanks to this service, you can quickly contact someone, send important documents or just chat with a person who is far from you.
We will tell you how to become the owner of a mailbox on the Internet
Electronic Mail (e-mail) services are used everywhere. Each organization or institution, along with other contacts, always has an email address. Any PC user should have it. Without it, you cannot register on websites, subscribe to mailing lists, or gain access to closed resources and forums. It is also needed for some programs to work.
This spread of email is due to the fact that services for sending messages are accessible and understandable to every person. They appeared a long time ago, but still remain relevant. Not needed for email powerful computer or fast internet. There are many different sites where you can register it. Everyone has a different interface and functionality, so there are options for every taste. If you don't like online services, install special utilities on your computer - email clients.
The e-mail address is unique for each user. It's like a phone number or a zip code - no two are alike.
You can send messages of any length and add attachments to them: files, pictures, documents. Such a letter will be delivered instantly. Most email services have a huge range of text formatting tools. Various fonts, styles, colors, background insertion, and pictures are available. You can send a real greeting card. And the recipient will see it on the same day.
What does an e-mail address consist of?
E-mail has a clear structure and is formed in a certain way. It consists of several elements. The elements themselves may vary, but they must be written in Latin letters. It is acceptable to use numbers, punctuation marks and some other symbols. This is the generally accepted standard. This is what the email address looks like: “login@domain”. Let's look at each part of the address in more detail.
The structure of an email address is not that complicated
- Login (login). This is your username or "nickname". A unique identifier by which the system for receiving and sending messages will calculate that this is your e-mail. You have to come up with it yourself. It can be anything, the main thing is that it does not coincide with a nickname that already exists in the mail service. When registering an email, a warning “This login is already taken” or something similar may appear. Then you need to come up with and write down another name. It is not necessary to change it completely - just add some numbers or symbols to it to make it unique.
- Next comes the separator character “@”. It is called "Commercial at" or simply "Dog". On the keyboard it is located in the same place as the button with the number “2” (you can type it in the English layout). This sign is required in all e-mails - it stands between the login and the domain. It is called differently in different countries. For example, in Finland it is “Cat” or “Cat’s tail”, in Italy it is “Snail”, in Bulgaria it is “Monkey”, in the USA it is simply “at”. On public Internet resources, this symbol is sometimes replaced with “at” in parentheses. This is done so that the address does not end up in spambot databases. When sending messages, you must replace “at” with “@”.
- Domen (domain). URL of the service where the e-mail is registered. This can be a corporate or any free site (for example, mail.ru or gmail.com). Many resources offer several domain options. You cannot invent it yourself - you can only choose it. Many organizations create their own domains, but this comes at a cost.
See how to write an email address with a specific example: “ [email protected]», « [email protected]».
How to register an email?
Several sites with the function of free e-mail registration:
- Yandex
- Gmail
- Rambler
Viewing your inbox on Google is quite convenient
They're not just for composing email. Each of them has a huge range of informational, entertaining or simply useful services. To obtain a personal address, you must do the following:
- Go to the resource.
- There will be a button “Create an account”, “Register”, “Register email” or something similar.
- Fill in the fields. Usually you need to write your name, desired login, indicate a security question and answer to it, and set a password. If you don’t want to enter your real name, you can replace it with a nickname. But in an e-mail that is needed for work or some official business, it is better to write correct user data so that it is displayed in messages to your clients, colleagues and employers.
- It is advisable to make the password complex. Not related to login, name, date of birth or anything similar. So that it cannot be picked up.
- The login may consist of letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers or special characters. If you enter an invalid character, the system will warn you about it.
- Confirm your registration.
Dialogue for creating a mailbox in one of the systems
Large organizations register their own domains. It looks presentable. Serious companies prefer not to use free e-mail services.
If you don't know how to come up with an email address, try something like this:
- Last name with initials or abbreviated full name. You can add numbers, dots, dashes, and underscores. Convenient for business communication. From the login it is immediately clear who it belongs to.
- A nickname that you often use on the Internet. Those who know you by this nickname will be able to recognize your email at first glance.
- In some services, the address is automatically generated from your name (if you specified it). The system will offer several logins to choose from. If one of them suits you, use it.
- It's better to create a nickname that is easy to remember. You should not specify an incoherent set of letters or numbers if you intend to use the service in the future for communication or work.
How to send an email?
Do you want to send something by e-mail? It's very easy to do.
- Log in to your email site or launch your email client.
- Click the New Email button. It may be called differently.
- In the To field, enter your address.
- In the Subject field, briefly describe what your message is about. The first thing the recipient will see is the sender's email and this subject.
- The largest field is for the body (content) of the letter.
- When finished, click on “Submit”.
The webmail interface of various services is approximately the same
It’s quite easy to figure out how a user’s email address is generated. It consists of three parts: login, @ separator character and domain name. These elements are fixed and cannot be swapped. Each email is a unique set of characters; no two are alike. You can come up with a login, you can just choose a domain from the proposed options. The address must consist of Latin letters, numbers or some symbols.
Email, in our time, you need it everywhere: make an appointment with a doctor, buy tickets online, register on social networks. Therefore, I will tell you how to quickly and freely create a new mailbox on Mail.ru
Registering a mailbox on Mail.ru
To register, go to the website mail.ru(enter into your browser's address bar). A page will open with a special form in the upper left corner.
Start of registration in mail ru mail
Registering a new mailbox on mail.ruThe page opens Registration. There is nothing difficult about filling out the registration form. First name 1, last name 2, date of birth 3 are required, but no one will check whether you wrote honestly or not. You select your gender by switching button 4.
How to choose a mailbox name (mail address)
In the line Desired mailing address 5, options for email names will appear, compiled automatically, taking into account your first name, last name, and date of birth. You can choose from the list provided, or you can choose a good name yourself.
The name must be 4-31 characters. In addition to Latin (English) letters, you can use numbers, underscores (_), a period, or a hyphen (-), but the name of the mailbox cannot begin with these characters. Be prepared for the fact that the simple name you want to use is already taken and you will receive a response that “A mailbox with the same name already exists.”
You can choose a mailbox name in four domains: mail.ru, inbox.ru, list.ru, bk.ru. Your email, depending on this, might look like this: [email protected] , [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].
If a beautiful name is taken in one domain, then check in other domains. To do this, click on the domain that is visible in window 6 (in my example - bk.ru), a list of four domains will open, and you select the one you like from the list. When you finish choosing the name of the mailbox, proceed to entering the password.
How to choose a strong password for your mailbox
If you are going to use e-mail for a long time and for serious purposes, then password 7 should be strong. Russian letters are not allowed. And while we love to use meaningful words, it's best not to. If your password is hacked, you will not only lose your emails, but it will also be difficult for you to get your mailbox back.
The password must consist of at least 6 characters, but it should not consist of only numbers. It must contain English letters, numbers, and symbols (for example: $, %, #). Letters must be used, both lowercase and uppercase. As you type, hints will change to the right of the password: weak password, average password , strong password . Make sure your password is strong - then you can sleep peacefully!
To make sure that you entered the password correctly, in the next field 8, enter the same password again. After this, immediately write down your email account name and password in your notebook before you forget!
Enter your mobile phone number
Field Phone 9 must be filled in in case you forget your password and cannot access your mailbox. Anticipate such a nuisance!
To do this, select your country from the drop-down list and enter the number mobile phone. Within a minute you will receive a message with a confirmation code.
Enter the confirmation codeEnter the Code received via SMS in the appropriate field and click Continue.
How to register a mailbox without a mobile phone?
If you do not want to indicate your mobile phone number, then click the link I don’t have a mobile phone 10. An additional field will open. In this field, enter an additional e-mail, if you have one, and click the Continue button. . In principle, you don’t have to specify anything, but keep in mind that if your password is hacked or lost, it will be difficult for you to get your mailbox back.
When you register mail without a phone number, a window will appear in which you need to enter the code from the picture. For such cases, I keep a magnifying glass on hand. And, anyway, you have to click the link 2-3 times. I don’t see the code to update the picture to a more legible one!
Registration without a mobile phoneHave you entered the code? Now click the Continue button, and you will find yourself in your new mailbox. There you will receive 3 letters from the Mail.ru Team with congratulations and recommendations for working with email.
Although no! You'll see the contents of your new mailbox, but a setup window will appear in front of it.
Setting up your new mailbox on mail ru in 3 steps
So, I’m showing you how to quickly complete your mail setup.
Step 1. Upload a photo and create a signature
In the first step, a window will appear allowing you to upload your photo and create a signature that will be inserted into every email you send. After these steps, click the Save button. However, if you don’t have the photo at hand, and you haven’t decided on the signature yet, then click on the Skip button and you will find yourself on the next step.
Step 2. Select a theme for your mailbox
The second step is to choose a theme that will decorate your mailbox while you work with letters. Having selected the theme you like, click the Save button. You can click the Skip button - then the Classic theme will remain. As I see, for most users, this is exactly what remains.
Step 3: Install mobile app Mail.ru
The third step suggests installing a mobile application from Mail.ru. If you register on a smartphone, you can immediately click the App Store button or Google play(depending on your smartphone model) and install the application on your phone.
If you create a mailbox on a PC or laptop, then it’s okay! As soon as you have a smartphone, you can install the mail ru application and, using your login and password, link your email to this application.
Now click the Finish button, and you will find yourself in your new mailbox. Write and send your letters, receive and re-read letters from friends!
Mail mail registration - video tutorial on registering and setting up a mailbox
The video tutorial shows how to register an e-mail on the popular Mail ru mail server, Video 2017 from the Virtual Computer Academy
- Find the registration page in mail
- How to choose an email address name?
- Enter a strong password!
- We receive a confirmation code via SMS.
- We go to our mailbox.
This article will be of interest to those who use mail from Mail.ru and still don’t know their email address, or maybe you just forgot it and want to remember it somehow or look it up somewhere. How can I find out my email address for such a person? I want to tell you about two methods, each of which has the right to life and with 100% probability will help you finally find and see this cherished address.
After all, anything can happen; someone hasn’t used their mailbox on the Internet for a long time. You created it simply to register in some social network. network, you forgot your password and want to recover it. But here’s the problem: you don’t remember your postal address, you’re tormented because you can’t get to your contact page. Or maybe this is a reliable site for making money on which your money is stuck.
Let's look at the first option right away. This is the case when you remember your login and password and can log into your mail. But you just don’t know where you can see what your mailing address looks like. Thousands of people who have created their own email find themselves in this situation every day. Frankly, I was once one of them and didn’t know where my e-mail was. That’s why I want to tell you how to find your address in order to make the most of it. For example, you can simply copy it and then paste it into some registration form. This will allow you to quickly register on the desired site.
My email - how to find out and where to look for it?
So now just go to the Mail.ru website using your username and password (), enter them and click on the login button. How do I find out my email address after logging into the site? You can see it in two places at once, namely in the upper right corner and in the left. As shown in the picture below.
This is the most easy way, but beginners often cannot cope with such a seemingly simple task. Now you know where, if necessary, you can look up your E-mail address.
Let's consider the following option, when you forgot your email address, but you desperately need it. We will talk about recovering the password for the page in in social networks or on a site that you use to make money online (). Forgotten passwords usually sent to email address, and all you have to do is just go to your mail.
But the trouble is, you don’t remember what to do with your address. This situation can happen to those who have several E-mails on the Internet at once and the person gets confused and forgets which one he used to register on the desired site. Or you only have one email, but you use it so rarely that you don’t remember it for a long time.
In such a situation, the Google search engine can help us; it was with its help that I once remembered my email address. But there is one point here: when creating an email, you should have used real data, that is, your real first and last name.
Only in this case will Google save us. I’m sure you remember your name, and this is the most important thing, now just enter it into the search engine (for example, Dmitry Chiritsa) and press search. On the first page you will find your account on Mail.ru, and just below your mail will be displayed, something like this.
Using the same method, you can find out the email address of any person you are interested in, provided that he has registered his mail on the Mail.ru website. By the way, if you know the postal address, you can already find anyone using it. The scheme is the same, just enter the name of the mail into the search engine and within a couple of seconds you will receive the information you are looking for. This way you can find the person you need by email.
Perhaps you just need Email, in which case you don’t have to remember the old email address, but register a new one ().
I hope these simple ways helped you and now you know your email address. Use it for your health, or better yet, write it down so you don’t forget next time, who knows. If you, like me, have many similar addresses, I advise you to create a separate one Word document. Then copy the addresses and passwords there. This will greatly simplify your online activities.
E-mail is similar in its operation to regular mail, so mastering the principles of its operation should not cause any particular difficulties for the user. Its main difference is that it is not physical objects (letters, parcels, parcels) that are sent, but their information images. This imposes a number of restrictions, but also gives a number of advantages to electronic correspondence over regular correspondence. Therefore, e-mail cannot be considered as an alternative to postal services that exist in all corners of the planet. We can only talk about complementing one type of connection with another.
The main advantage of e-mail is the speed of delivery of letters. Usually emails reach any point on the globe in a few minutes. Just like a fax, it allows you to transmit not only text, but also an image, but you do not use long-distance or international telephone communication and the image quality does not deteriorate during transmission.
Email does not use geographic addressing. The email address looks like this:
mailbox_name@domain_name, (for example, [email protected])
The "@" symbol is a separator that shows where the username ends and the domain name begins in the address. In Russian it is often called “dog” or “frog”, and in English it is denoted by the preposition “at”, that is, in our example, the user “ivanov” on the domain “mail.ru”.
Today there are two slightly different email services operating in parallel on the Internet. This is a classic email Email and email based World Wide Web Web-Mail.
Classic email E-Mail works on the principle of a relay race. So-called mail servers are installed in network nodes - programs that work using the protocol SMTP. In order not to slow down the work of other services, the mail server is usually configured as a separate computer. Protocol SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the simplest message transfer protocol.
Receiving messages. The message is transmitted between servers SMTP until it ends up in " mailbox", where it is stored until the recipient connects to the mail server using a special client program - an email client. This email client must be able to work with a special protocol that is used to receive letters received on the server. The simplest protocol SMTP not enough here. SMTP - This is the relay protocol. With its help, messages are sent to the server and sent between servers, but in order to receive them, you must show your rights and confirm that the recipient is the person to whom the message is addressed. Commonly accepted reception protocols: POP3 or IMAP .
There are quite a lot of email programs, most of which are distributed free of charge. They are all quite similar and differ only slightly in design, their additional capabilities and the degree of compliance with accepted standards (The Bat!, Microsoft Outlook, etc.).
Web-Mail. Classic email has a characteristic drawback - the need to install on your computer and master special program- mail client. Regular Web servers act as Web-mail servers. When each client connects, a Web page is generated corresponding to its current state. account in the database. A regular browser acts as a client program. Unlike E-Mail, Web-Mail is not an independent service - it is simply an additional service of the World Wide Web system. Web-Mail addresses are written exactly the same as E-Mail addresses.
Advantages of Web-Mail compared to classic email:
Ease of use,
Relative anonymity,
Mobility,
Easy account management.
Disadvantages of Web-Mail:
Low operating speed,
Limited useful functions
Security threat,
Language barriers(encoding problem).
Questions and tasks for self-test
1. Tell us the history of the development of the Internet.
2. What is the Internet, World Wide Web?
3. How are documents addressed on the Internet?
4. What is a hypertext space?
5. Describe Internet services.
6. How is information searched on the Internet carried out? What is called a search directory, search query?
7. What is the filtering and ranking of information in the process of searching for a query?
8. Give examples of using query language when searching.