How to restore your email address

When you rarely use email, the address is lost, especially when you have several accounts. And if you had to go to the old mailbox, you will need to remember it, find out the e-mail with the help of friends, support service. How to find the email address if you forgot? There are several ways, depending on the type of postal service, whether you remember your login, whether your account is tied to the phone. Read below, how to act in different cases, choose the appropriate method for how to find out your email address. For those who have forgotten it, we have compiled detailed instructions.

How to regain access to the electronic - we will tell below

Instructions for the restoration of e-mail

  1. The easiest way is to ask friends, acquaintances to whom you wrote from a lost account. They will copy the sender's data from the letter received from you.
  2. If the automatic login is saved, but the host has forgotten the address itself, you can go to the “Sent” letters and see for yourself the information about the sender.
  3. If you remember your login from the e-mail under which you registered, then you just need to add @ to it, and then the domain of the mail service, for example, mail.ru. Write everything without spaces, together. Some services offer several domains, just check each of them, if you do not remember which one you chose during registration. Again, provided that you can log in to your account, try sending an email to yourself for verification. How to find your email address, if you forgot the domain, read below.
  4. If the box was tied to the phone or to another box, you can use the reminder functions of the service. Unfortunately, this prompt is not provided on mail.ru. There is also no separate reminder in Yandex, however, a hint appears in the Access Recovery window if you used to log in from the same media (computer). But, for example, on Google, this is done fairly quickly and without unnecessary complications:

      • You go to the start page of mail.google.com;
      • click on the link "need help";
      • further choose "I do not remember the username";
      • restore the name using an attached phone or other mail, fill out information about yourself. If you specify a mobile alert, you are prompted to choose an SMS or call;

    Enter the phone number associated with the account to receive the email address

    • enter the verification code in a special field; Google after verification will show you your address attached to the named phone number or box.
  5. You can contact the technical support service, they may be able to assist you in mail recovery. For example, they can help with changing the phone number attached to the box. You will need to provide some information to confirm that you are the owner of this mail. For example, on Yandex, this could be your account in the Yandex.Money service, for legal entities - the address of the company's website, the number of the Metrics counter.
  6. If you have forgotten the email address of the company, go to the official website, where you probably will find it in the “Contacts” section. Sometimes the contact address is located at the bottom of each page.

There are many ways to find out your email. If you did not manage to restore it, just start a new one, tell your friends, colleagues about the mail change you have made. It is recommended to record the data so that it is not lost, on paper, in the cloud, in mobile notes. If you lose, follow our instructions, choose a convenient way to recover information.