Set up email and password. How to create an email? Step-by-step instruction. Setting up mail using the operating system itself

Oddly enough, but in the 21st computer age, we still cannot do without mail, or rather without email. Each newcomer, when getting acquainted with the global Internet, is faced with the task of creating and registering his own free mailbox, since without your Email you will not be able to register in any social network, various services, besides, using an email box it is convenient to send messages to any part of the world. From this article you can find out: what is email, how to register a mailbox, which mail service to choose for your email address, and many more interesting and useful things.

Email - what is it?

Email is a technology with which you can send messages, pictures, videos and music files over a distance to other Internet participants (in English it is: electronicmail, abbreviated e-mail oremail). In other words, e-mail is an analogue of the usual "paper" mail, but only on the international Internet. Concepts are also used here: letter, send, receive, attachment, signature, address. In everyday life, people usually say “electronic”, “soap”, “box”, “email”.

If you think that email is a fairly young creation, I hasten to surprise you - it is already over half a century old! According to the latest data, the time of the emergence of e-mail is 1965 - it was then that Noel Morris and Tom Van Vleck (employees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed the program « mail", with the help of which it became possible to transfer messages between workstations connected to one main computer:

After the advent of the global domain name system (DNS), they began to use domain names in the address for communication, for example: [email protected]infomechanics.en, it was then that the so-called "dog" appeared - @ .

And finally, in the mid-90s of the twentieth century, mass email services appeared:

• 1996 - Hotmail launched;
• 1997 - Yahoo! Mail;
• 1998 - Russian service Mail.ru;
• 2000 - Yandex Mail;
• 2004 - Google mail Gmail.

The advantages of e-mail include: ease of remembering the email address, which usually looks like this: mailbox_name@service_domain; another plus is the ability to send any information: text, files, images, audio, video, programs, etc.; independence of postal services; reliability and speed of mail delivery.

Of the minuses, it should be noted such a phenomenon as SPAM- mass mailing of advertising information without the consent of the owner of the mailbox; like regular mail, e-mail is also characterized by delays in the delivery of letters; and the last minus is the limit on the size of the attachment sent, usually it should not exceed 10 GB.

Yahoo.com(Yahoo Mail) - mail service from the oldest search engine "Yahoo!", quite popular in the west, not very common in our country. There is a Russian interface. Can be used for secondary purposes. Register here: Yahoo.com

How to register an email - sharing secrets

If you have read up to this point, then the issue with the choice of the mail service (see above) has been resolved for you. The registration process for all mailers is basically the same and has been described many times on the Internet, so I will not repeat this. Rather, I will share with you some secrets that few beginners know about:

1. You can register as many mailboxes as you want and on different services (Jimeil, YandexMail, MailRu, etc.). There is no limit on the number of email addresses for one person.
2. To create mail, it is not necessary to indicate a phone number, you can do without it, then during registration you will be prompted to enter a “secret” question, the answer to which only you know. Advice: if you are worried about the safety of the contents of your mailbox, please indicate your number when registering mobile phone, this will protect your mail from hacking by 99%. If you already have an e-mail box, you can also link your phone number to it, this option is now available in most mail services.
3. Choosing name for your email do not create too long and complex, they are difficult to remember, here are examples of such "stupid" addresses: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]- apparently people have difficulty with imagination ... Of course, all beautiful and short names have long been taken (they even sell such “beautiful” boxes on the net!), But with some diligence, you can come up with something original and easy to remember, for example: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] :-).
4. Password for mail is important, the more complex it is, the more difficult it will be for crackers to pick it up. But there is a downside to the coin - the longer the password, the more difficult it is to remember. Therefore, I recommend making passwords 10-15 characters long and writing them down separately somewhere in a notebook. Of course, you can store passwords in the browser or in special programs, but this is less reliable. Include letters, numbers, and signs in your password. I share a chip- to make it easier to remember the password, type it in Russian words, but in the English layout on the keyboard, for example, your password "Puss in Boots" in English it will look like this: « rjndcfgjuf[". But in such a simple form, do not leave the password, complicate it by adding capital letters, several characters and numbers: " Puss! in! Boots10"- in English it will look like this: « Rjn!d!fgjuf)