Forgot the password from the mail. How to recover your login and password

Practically all of us use the standard set of tools in the Internet: social networks, various messengers for informal communication and mail for correspondence in a more business format.

However, as a rule, networks spend more time than in a mail box (objectively because there is a huge amount of information there). And it so happened that to remember the login and password from "VKontakte" we are easier than from the box, for example, on the "Rambler", which we go to once a week. "What should I do if I forgot my password from the mail?", "How to find out the password to the mailbox?" And many other similar questions are asked by ordinary users. The answer to them (and not only) we will give in this article.

Principle of operation of the authorization system

So, let's start with a general description of how authorization takes place on the mail server. In order to enter, you are asked to enter your login and password. The login is the user's identifier, which, as a rule, consists of letters and digits, and is unique. It is also rightly called the user name on the service where he has an account (in our case, this is a mail).

In addition to the login, each account owner has also a password. When they are entered, a person can log into the account and thus gain access to all the information inside it. Accordingly, the account owner will face a problem in the event that they lose these two parameters. So it happens in those situations when, for example, a girl says she forgot the password from the mail. Such a problem, unfortunately, is not unique or rare, and the guys suffer from it, too.

Reliability of protection

Of course, a simpler procedure could be envisaged to restore user data. For example, as it was before - the code word. When registering, the owner of the account was asked a secret word (for example, the mother's maiden name). After that, if the owner forgot the password of the mail, what to do - did not know, on the site he was asked the same question with the request to specify the same word. In case of coincidence of the answers, the password was reset, and the person got into the account.

In fact, such a mechanism still operates on less secure services. However, it is impossible to call it reliable - those who specialize in hacking other people's pages have long practiced the procedure of selecting secret words, so the most advanced sites from such a restoration option have long since declined. They were replaced by other methods - this is an alternative mail or SMS.

Multiple connected devices

A good option for how to restore your login and password is also to connect multiple devices to your account at once. For example, if you have a smartphone, tablet and home computer, with which you regularly go to the post office, you will not be able to restore access.

For example, when you log in from a computer, you accidentally left the account and, of course, forgot its data. The output is easy to find: from another connected gadget (on which you are still in the mail) you can see the login, and then, using the settings and the password change form, reset it again. However, in order to change, you need to first guess it. If you are already logged in, then you have more attempts to do this (at least, so Gmail e-mail is working). And if you go through the passwords "outside" the service, you will quickly get a lock on the IP address. So be careful.

Restoring username

What if you are not in the account you are interested in, and, in addition, also forgot your login? First, you need to clarify whether you have any tools for reminding and restoring. For example, did you indicate your phone number or an alternate email address. If so, then there should not be any problems: the login with which the account was created can be restored through one of these methods. Then, starting with the user's name, you can try to remember the one who forgot the password from the mail.

If you have not used any bindings and the service simply can not identify your second address or phone number, then your memory remains the only remedy. It is with her help that you can try to remember the addresses of people or organizations that you contacted and ask them to write you your login (it looks like login@site.com).

Another way is to try to remember your email through third-party services. This option also has the right to exist, however, if you are logged in any social network, for example. If you used one mailbox, you can go to the settings page in such a network and see what address is registered there.

Recover password

Completely different is the situation, if, for example, the girl has forgotten the password from the mail. In fact, she has a login on her hands, but there is no way to log into the account under him. How to be in this case?

Very simple! To begin with, we try to use, again, a binding. It can be SMS with a password sent to the phone number, or a letter to reset the access key, which will be sent to your second mailing address. If these options are not available, you can try to recover the password using the secret word mentioned above (this does not work for Gmail, but it still works for "Yandex"). True, for this you will need to remember such a word.

The last, the most desperate way, is just trying to pick a password, sorting through all the possible options.

How to prevent loss

Although all services have a special form of password recovery and login, but nevertheless, in some cases, even they can not help. As a result, mail, the login, whose password was forgotten, is simply lost, and with it all contacts are lost.

Therefore, in order to prevent this, we recommend using the means to restore your confidential information provided by the postal services. And this, as you already know: the indication of an alternative mailbox, phone number, secret question. There is one more elementary method - the trivial saving of your data somewhere on your computer in electronic format or simply fixing it on paper in a notebook. And then you will be sure that you will not lose access to the mailbox, if you really need it.