Registration

How to create an account in Yandex Mail

To access Yandex Mail, you need a Yandex ID. If you do not have one, complete the following steps:

1. Open the registration page.

2. Enter your name and surname.

3. Create or select a unique username, which you will use to log into Mail and other Yandex services.

   Alert

   You cannot change your username after registration.

4. Come up with a password to access Yandex ID and make sure you remember it. Your password should be secure in order to prevent malicious users from accessing your personal data.

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   To reveal the password, click in the password field.

5. Provide your mobile phone number. You can use this number to restore your password and receive notifications. You can change your phone number later on the Mobile numbers page.

6. Enter the code from the SMS to confirm your phone number.

7. Make sure you select the checkbox to confirm that you accept the terms of the User Agreement and allow your personal data to be processed.

8. Press the button Register.

After registering, your email address will consist of your username, the @ sign, and the "yandex.com" domain name (or one of its domain aliases). For example, just.mad.hatter@yandex.com. The domain alias is determined automatically during registration.

You can edit your personal details, set a different security question, specify additional email addresses, or edit your phone numbers list at any time.

How can I change my username?

You cannot change the username you created at registration with Yandex, but you can register a new one. To do this, click Add account in the account menu in the top right corner of the screen, and then Register on the page that opens.

Coming up with a reliable password

A good password is hard to guess or crack using brute force.

Never disclose your account password to anyone. The more people know your password, the higher the odds of it getting into the hands of scammers.

To create a secure password, use:

• Both upper and lower case Latin letters.

• Numbers.

• punctuation:

  • allowed ` ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) - _ = + [ ] { } ; : " | , . < > / ?

  • only ~ and ' are not allowed.

What passwords are considered weak

Here is a list of things you definitely shouldn't use for your password:

• Passwords that you already use on other sites or apps. If someone found out the password you use for your social network, they would not only try to log into Yandex, but also other social networks, email services, and online banks.

• Common words (jennifer, administrator) or predictable letter combinations (qwerty, 123456).

• Personal information easily accessible online: your name, birthday, passport number, etc. Even using your mother's maiden name would not be the best idea.

Special email addresses

If you don't want to provide your real email address when registering with online retailers, forums, or other platforms, add the "+" sign or the "+" sign and any word that would help you identify the website at the end of your username. Your resulting address should be something like this: alice.the.girl+teaforum@yandex.com. Messages sent to this address will be filtered into the Inbox folder of your real mailbox. If you want emails from this address in another folder, create mail processing rules.

A special Yandex mailbox will also help to re-register on the site. For example, if you forgot your Yandex ID password and can't recover it.

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