What is email and how to create it?

Nowadays, people are less and less using regular mail. Many children and teenagers even sometimes wonder: why is it needed when there is a phone and a computer?

At the same time, not all adults have yet learned to take advantage of Internet communications, in particular, e-mail.

What is email?

The principle of operation of regular mail is simple: a person writes a letter, writes the address on the envelope and takes it to the post office. Postal employees deliver the letter to the addressee.

E-mail works in much the same way: you write a letter, write down the address, and the letter is sent on the road. But the addressee does not receive it after a week, but within just a few seconds, and special computer programs serve as postmen.

In addition to the text of the letter, you can put photos, scans of documents, audio or video recordings, a funny or romantic postcard into the “envelope”. At the same time, you do not pay anything for the shipment: the postage is included in the total fee for .

You can receive and send e-mails not only from your home computer, but also from any device that has Internet access and a special program: from a tablet, smartphone or laptop.

How to create your own email?

The easiest way to create your own mailbox is to register with one of the free mail servers. The most common of them are yandex.ru, gmail.com, mail.ru and rambler.ru.

You can use them at any time, and the functionality is about the same, so if you learn how to use e-mail, for example, on yandex.ru, you can use any other Runet mail servers.

So, in order to register a personal mailbox on yandex.ru, you need to find the inscription “Create a mailbox” on the main page of the Yandex search engine (site www.yandex.ru). It is usually located on the right side of the screen. Found? Very good, now click on it with the mouse.

The registration page has opened in front of you. Fill in all its columns. By the way, you are not at all obliged to register a mailbox in your real name: you can come up with any pseudonym or nickname. The main thing is that the addressees of the letters know from whom they receive messages.


It may be difficult for you to come up with a login for your mail: it is part of the email address and must be strictly individual. The Yandex mail service will tell you how to come up with a login using your first and last name. The email address of the mailbox will look like this: [email protected].

Inventing a password, show maximum imagination. A good password consists of at least 6-7 characters, including letters and numbers. It should be such that you can easily remember it. Often, the names and dates of birth of loved ones, nicknames of pets, famous historical dates are used as a password.

After filling in all the fields, click on the inscription "Register". Now you can use email.

How to use email?

There is nothing difficult in using e-mail. Log into your email using your username and password. Automatically you get to the section of incoming letters, i.е. the ones you received. At the top of the screen is the mail service menu, on the left is a list of your mail folders.

Unread messages are in bold, to read any of them, just click on it with the mouse.

To write a letter to one of your friends, click on the inscription "Write". Fill in the "To" field - here you need to specify the email address of your friend's mailbox. The Subject field is optional. In the main field, type the text of the letter, when finished, click the inscription "Send". That, in fact, is all.

You will learn further functions of the mailbox in the process of using it. Most of them, quite possibly, will never be useful to you. You can customize the mail to your liking by going to the settings panel.


You can create new folders for letters, organize the forwarding of letters from your other mailboxes, change the design of mail, etc. Having mastered the use of the yandex.ru mailbox, you can use any mail servers, since they are all practically the same functionally.