Losing access to your mailbox can turn into a serious and sometimes unsolvable problem if you do not use special methods for recovering a forgotten login. If you cannot activate your account due to your own forgetfulness, then all you need to do is follow simple tips.
It is necessary
- - your own business card;
- - notebook, communicator and other devices for entering data;
- - access to the Internet;
- - access to accounts on other multi-user resources;
- - a sheet of paper and a pen.
Instructions
Step 1
Look at the email address on your business card in case you lost access to work1 mail or if the business card indicated a personal mailbox. The first domain of the address will be your username. This tip will help those who use business cards.
Step 2
Pick up all work records in diaries, notebooks, and other gadgets that are commonly used to record information. If you have a notebook for recording all registration data, then look at the entries in it. You need to find the spelling of your own mailing address. In notebooks, there is a special insert for filling in the owner's personal data, where there is also an e-mail column that you could once have filled out.
Step 3
Remember for what purposes you used this mailbox, and with whom you corresponded. If it is possible to contact your mail interlocutors, then ask them to bring up the archive of correspondence and tell you the full name of your mailbox. In the event that the box was mentioned when registering on social networks and on other multi-user resources, then this can also be used.
Step 4
Try to remember the maximum number of accounts associated with the lost mailbox and visit each of them. Review your account settings and the valid registration data you entered one at a time. They must contain an email address.
Step 5
Check the history of outgoing messages on your phone and in all instant messaging tools, where you could transfer your email inbox to someone from the interlocutors. If there was no such information in the archives, then try to remember which of your friends or colleagues you could ever give your email address.
Step 6
Open the mail server where the mailbox is located from the computer that was used to activate the account the last time. In the event that the function of remembering the login and password was activated in the browser settings at the time of opening the box, then when you double-click on the corresponding column, a context menu will appear listing the logins that have ever been entered into it.
Step 7
Make a list of possible login options in the event that the above recommendations did not lead to a result. Take a sheet and a pen, and write down all the valid logins that you are using on the Internet now. Try to guess what the login from this mailbox could be. Consider the fact that sometimes the desired option may be rejected by the mail server as a duplicate already existing mailbox. This forces users to remember that failed login.
Step 8
But when the system notifies about the need to enter a different login, the user most often only slightly modifies the existing one. Some services offer a list of possible options to help you. Thus, make up the maximum number of login options and methodically try each of them in the activation field.
