Anyone who is just getting started on the World Wide Web should know how to set up email on a computer. Moreover, this must be done regardless of whether in the future the user is going to correspond with someone through emails or not.
With the advent of various methods of communication via the network: ICQ, Agent from Mail.ru service, Skype, and now social networks, the popularity of e-mail (e-mail) for exchanging letters has significantly decreased. Rather, almost never use email as a substitute for classic paper letters. Why then should you figure out how to create an email?
Everything is simple. Without your own e-mail box, it is impossible to register on most Internet services. This means that you won’t be able to communicate with friends or distant relatives through the popular Skype, because for the initial creation of your account in this program you will need to specify an email account. Communication on the forums is also possible only after registration, involving the indication of your e-mail. In general, almost all modern registrations in the global network require an e-mail address, where a confirmation link is sent. This is not a conspiracy, but the usual protection of the owners of Internet resources from automatic registrations. Obviously, the user wants it or not, but he will have to get comfortable with the question of how to create an e-mail.
There is nothing complicated about it. Currently, there are many sites offering to use them to create your own email. Although all of them cope quite effectively with their main function, allowing you to create a mailbox and supporting its work, the differences are quite significant. Before you create an email, it’s very useful to know their features.
All of them provide different amounts of free space for storing letters, therefore, the bigger it is, the better.
Protection against viruses and spam is implemented by different programs, so you should choose fairly well-known solutions. Extra security is never superfluous.
Consider how to create email in the famous mail.ru service. One of its advantages is a long existence on the market, which allows you not to worry that in a day or two the mailbox will disappear along with the one-day service.
First of all, open mail.ru in any browser. In the upper left block of the page there is a link for postal registration - click. In the window that appears, we type in our data: first name, last name, date of birth - there are no problems with this. But then we come up with the name of the mailbox and the password for it. The name should be typed in English letters and, most importantly, unique. For example, we want a mailbox named "superman". Such a name already exists, so the system will offer its own version with such a word. You can agree or come up with something else. It is allowed to change the binding to the server, so you can specify not only mail.ru, but also inbox.ru (list.ru, bk.ru) - this does not affect performance.
The password must consist of numbers and English letters. For the average user, six characters is enough.
Below we indicate your mobile number and confirm the registration (the code comes in SMS). That's all - the mail is created.
A few tips:
- save codes and logins for all services (mail, skype, forum) on a piece of paper or, more conveniently, in a simple text file on a flash drive. This is useful not only for beginners, but also for experienced computer scientists;
- configure a special mail program (for example, The Bat) to work with letters - this is much more convenient than sending and receiving letters directly through the site. Setup instructions can be found at mail.ru.