Forgot password mail: what to do?
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Most people in the process of personal and businesscommunication actively use modern technologies of information exchange with the use of the Internet. To do this, it's enough just to have a mailbox on one of the special services (the most common ones are mail, yandex, rambler). With the help of e-mail, you can instantly send information to anywhere in the world and receive answers to it.
Protection of personal correspondence from outsiders actsThe password that the user comes up with when registering. The most common password is a meaningless combination of letters and numbers. It must be remembered or written down. But if I forgot my password, what should I do?
Ways of password recovery
Let's look at how to recover the passworde-mail, on specific examples of the Yandex.Mail service. If you entered an incorrect password, Yandex will not allow you to the electronic box and will display the message "Wrong login-password pair". You understand that the exact combination of characters, which is a pass to the mailbox, has been erased from your memory, and you forgot it too. In this case, you can refer to the link "Recover password", which is located at the bottom of the box entry box. Clicking on the link will take you to the Access Restore page.
Enter your email address and captcha in special fields. Yandex will offer you a way to recover the password.
- If you are registering as an additionalthe information indicated the number of your mobile phone, Yandex will ask you to enter it again and send the access recovery code to your phone. Using the code, you can create a new forgotten password instead of a new one.
- If you specified a codeword during registration, you will need to enter this word to gain access to the recovery.
- If, when registering for Yandex.Mail, you specified your alternative e-mail addresses for communication, the service will ask you to duplicate them and send the code to your other mail.
In most cases, you can restore access to the mail in 1-5 minutes. If self-help attempts to obtain a new password were unsuccessful, contact technical support.
In a similar way, access to mailboxes on mail.ru is restored (see Mail ru: how to find out the password).
If you use the Google Chrome browser while browsing the Internet, you can restore forgotten passwords by digging into the browser's settings (see the article How to view passwords in Chrome).
It happens that you forgot not only the password, but also the login. To learn how to get to your personal correspondence in this case, read the article How to find out your email.
If you do not have enough of your own box, and you want to read the correspondence of another person out of curiosity, read the article How to find out the password from the mail.
