How to create an e-mail: e-mail (on the mail.ru portal). Mail setup

Good day everyone!

Eh ... Today without electronic mailbox(also called e-mail, e-mail, "soap" and other derivatives) and not there and not here. Whatever site you register on, in 99% of cases you will be asked to indicate your mail. In addition, it is convenient to send various documents and files to your colleagues and friends by e-mail.

Quite often, I am asked questions regarding the creation and configuration of a mailbox. I decided from short answers to each of them - to collect an article with the most basic points on setting up your own e-mail 👌, a kind of mini-instruction. I think for people who are not very knowledgeable with digital technologies, it will be very useful.

As an example, I took the most famous and convenient mail service. Mail.ru ... In principle, registration in other mail services will be very similar to my example, most of the actions will be performed in the same way.

Well, let's get started ...

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Creation of e-mail on Mail.ru

I will build the article in the form of step-by-step actions. I think it will be easier and faster to deal with each step than if it was just a text with a couple of photos.

By the way, why exactly Mail.ru:

the service is free and very popular (everyone knows this mail!);
mail size is not limited (there can be hundreds of messages);
all messages in the mailbox are automatically checked by the antivirus;
there is a service for transferring large files (that is, you can send letters, for example, with an attached file, the size of which is 1-2 GB of information, is it convenient !?);
when opening a mailbox - you also get access to many interesting services of the Mail.ru company.

STEP 1

Mail.ru service address - //mail.ru/

The first step is to open the official website Mail.ru (I gave the link above). In the site menu (on the left) - click on the link "Registering a new mailbox" .

Mail.Ru - mail, Internet search, news, games

STEP 2

Next, you will see a small form on your screen that you need to fill out. In it you need to indicate:

name, surname, date of birth, gender: please provide accurate information. If suddenly you are hacked, or you forget and lose your password, then you can restore access to mail only if you provide reliable information;
desired postal address: here you need to write your desired postal address in Latin letters and numbers. For example, [email protected] or [email protected]. True, such email addresses are already taken, but you can still pick up something interesting ✌. The main thing when choosing an address is to know what it is shorter andmore sonorous (to make it easy to dictate over the phone) - so much the better!
password: the more difficult - the better (the main thing is not to forget it yourself);
mobile phone number: must be your own and valid. Thanks to the phone, you can restore access to your mailbox (for example, if you forget your password, you can reset it using your phone).

Registration: filling out the form

Important!

I highly recommend remembering, or even better, writing down your mailbox address, password and phone number from it (relevant if you have several numbers).

Although security experts do not recommend keeping an email address and password in a notebook (notebook) - for beginners, this is exactly what I recommend doing (because too much information is not immediately stored in memory, especially for a person for whom everything new) ...

By the way, the second part of the mailbox address can be not only "@ mail.ru", but also "@ inbox.ru", "@ list.ru", "@ bk.ru". If, for example, a box [email protected] - busy, then try alternately the rest of the endings, it is possible that [email protected] will be free (although, of course, the address from mail.ru is more preferable and popular)!

In addition to Mail.ru, you can choose a different ending for your mail

It is also worth noting that in addition to the phone number, you can specify your other e-mail. For example, it is convenient in those cases when you need a second mail: one for work, and the second for personal.

Instead of a phone, you can specify an e-mail

STEP 3

If you entered all the data correctly and no errors were found, a window with confirmation of registration should appear: you need to enter the code from the picture and click "Proceed" (protection from robots and spam, erroneous registrations).

By the way, if during registration you specify a mobile phone number: it will also receive a code to confirm the number (you will also need to enter it for confirmation).

Registration - specifying the code from the picture

Important!

By the way, if you do not use mail for a very long time, then your mailbox may be suspended (and subsequently deleted). Previously, the term was "freezing" came after 3 months (now, it seems, has been somewhat increased). Therefore, if you rarely use mail, go at least once a month to check your mailbox ...

Setting up mail / putting things in order

STEP 1: authorization

In general, in the vast majority of cases, the Mail.ru website will automatically redirect you to the settings page (and you will start by uploading a photo and choosing a theme, see step 2 and 3 below).

But if redirection did not happen, go to the main page of Mail.ru and enter your data in the menu on the left: mailbox name and password from it (by the way, I even recommended to write down this data to get started).

Mail.Ru - enter the name and password from mail

Note: check the box "Remember" (it is located under the button "To come in" ), thanks to this, you will not need to enter your mailbox name and password every time: the browser will remember this data and will automatically substitute it for you. Very comfortably!

STEP 2

At the very beginning of the configuration, the Mail.ru service will ask you to upload your photo and enter your signature (for example, "Sincerely, Alexander" - this will be shown automatically at the end of each of your letters).

It is not necessary to upload a photo, but from experience I will say that a photo in an account makes communication more pleasant, they take you more seriously, and the interlocutor understands who he is dealing with 👌 ...

If you have a webcam, you can take a picture directly online.

Mail setup - photo upload

STEP 3

In the next step, Mail.ru will offer you to choose a theme: the color and design of your mail page. Of course, this is a matter of taste for everyone, but I would venture to give one piece of advice: choose something light and not too colorful. This makes it much more convenient and intuitive to work with mail, write and read letters.

The choice of topics, by the way, is large enough, there is for every taste: both a game lover and a football (sports) lover, and a movie fan - everyone will find a theme to their liking!

Mail setup - subject selection

STEP 4

Mail.ru also has a dedicated smartphone app. After installing it on your phone, you will receive notifications on it about new letters in your mailbox.

You can view them directly from your phone, and answer especially urgent ones. It is very convenient, in fact, working with mail will be like with SMS (only the size of messages is not limited by anyone никто).

Setting up mail - installing the application on a smartphone (can be done after)

In general, the basic configuration of mail for this is completed. Those. then you will see a regular window (see the screenshot below), in which there will be 3 messages from the Mail.ru service.

Your email address is always displayed at the top of the page (you can immediately copy it from there and paste it into your message to your friends). I also note that all messages in the mailbox are checked by the built-in antivirus (which is already a big plus!). The side menu displays various mail folders:

inbox: all letters sent to your mail are displayed in this folder, and are waiting for you to familiarize yourself with them;
Sent: This is where all the emails you have sent.
Drafts: letters that you wrote, but did not send anywhere (it is convenient to use drafts when you are writing a large letter);
spam: all sorts of advertising mailings, "garbage" are placed here, perhaps you yourself will add messages from some addresses to spam (I recommend to check the folder from time to time, especially when you are waiting for a letter from somewhere, just sometimes letters are placed in it by mistake) ;
basket: all messages you deleted are located here (after a certain time, the basket is automatically emptied (previously the period was 30 days)).

Inbox - Mail.Ru Mail and 2 more pages

STEP 5

Tip for working with letters ...

When you become more or less comfortable with mail and start distributing your address to friends, on various sites, etc. - a lot of letters will come to your mail.

Some of them can be read and immediately deleted (or answered), and some will be needed in a month, and possibly in a year! But these necessary letters, lying in a folder "Inbox" , strongly interfere and distract from work with new correspondence.

I recommend that you create a few more folders (i.e. so that in addition to "Inbox" you had folders like "From work", "From game sites", etc.)!

To do this, click on the link in the side menu "Configure folder" (under the basket).

Mail Mail.Ru - Setting up folders

Then press the button "Add folder" .

Adding a folder to mail

Give it a name (so it’s clear what it’s about) and position it (I usually put the folder in "Inbox" ). Then press the button "Add" .

Note : By the way, each folder can be additionally password protected as additional protection. Convenient when the computer is used by several users, and you do not want someone to read some of your personal letters (accidentally ☝).

Folder settings (can be password protected)

Now, when reading a new letter, you can send it to save in some folder with 2 mouse clicks. For example, I sent letters from Mail.ru to the folder "Work" (see screenshot below: "Move" button).

Mail Mail.Ru - Moving a letter to another folder

After that, it becomes much more convenient to use mail: after reading the letter, you just decide what to do with it - delete it, or reply, or (if there is no time) just save it in some folder.