What is email?
Electronic mail is known as email. It is a method of sending messages from one person to another digitally that is similar to sending physical mail. An email account from an email service provider is necessary for this. The email address associated with each email account serves as that account’s unique identifier. Emails will be sent and received at this email address over the internet.
Why do I require an email account?
As time has progressed, having an email address has gone from being optional to mandatory. One could argue that in today’s technologically advanced society, address to the internet and an individual email account are necessities. The most dependable means of official communication today is email. Email is still the favored method for business communications even if messaging applications on mobile devices are where most personal conversations take place.
A secure email account is required for each individual for the following reasons:
- opening accounts on social media
- control their online store accounts
- Receive updates from a variety of services
- Organize different transactions and subscriptions
- Manage and sign up for job portals
- Receive news from the educational establishments
- Receive medical reports and doctor appointments
- Manage your accounts with banks and insurance providers
It is strongly recommended that you maintain a separate professional email address from your personal email account at all times. When communicating for work-related objectives, use a corporate email service; when communicating for individual, unrelated purposes, use a personal email address.
How can I create a free email account?
From a number of well-known service providers, you may create an email account for personal use. Both personal and commercial email services are provided by Zoho Mail. No matter whatever subscription plan you have, Zoho Mail is free of ads, secure, and privacy-protecting. We use industry-standard privacy procedures at Zoho Mail to protect the privacy of your data. Our service is continually changing to ensure that we remain committed to maintaining your privacy, and your privacy is always our first concern.
A Zoho Mail account comes equipped with all the tools necessary to categorize incoming messages as tasks, notes, or files for later review and processing.
You may just sign up for the personal account without a domain if you want to create a personal email account. Depending on the data center based, you will receive an email address with your specified username and a preconfigured Zoho domain.
You have the choice to create a company email address with your own custom domain if you have a professional email account with Zoho. You will want a domain of your own in order to open a business email account. Additionally, you may get a domain through Zoho Mail and set it up to host your email.
Zoho email account creation instructions: a step-by-step guide
- Choose “Personal email” from the menu at www.zoho.com/mail.
2. The email address’s username should be chosen.
3. Ensure sure to use a respectable and legitimate username while submitting your username. This will be the main portion of your email address. Your email will be at the following address: username@zohomail.com (For users of US Data Centers)
- Based on your geolocation, an appropriate data center will be based automatically, and the domain of your email address will reflect that data center’s location.
- Your email address will be in the format username@zohonmail.eu
- if you reside in Europe and your email account will be setup by default in EU DC.
4. The email address will be in the format username@zohomail.com.au for Australia DC. By clicking the corresponding buttons, you may also register for a free email account utilizing the federated sign-in via Google, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Even in this case, you must still select the username as it is crucial to setting up the email account.
5. Provide a password that you can easily keep in mind but that others would have a hard time cracking. In order to keep your password secure, it is recommended that you follow these recommendations:
- a minimum of 8 characters
- A minimum of one number character, one upper case character, and one lower case character
- a minimum of one unique character
6. Fill in the blanks with your first and last names.
7. You must provide your phone number in order to be verified. (10-digit number without any dashes or spaces, including your area code)
8. Choose your nation or region.
9. Click the Sign up for Free option after reading and accepting the Terms of Service.
10. An SMS will receive a verification code. When prompted, enter the verification code to validate and continue using the account.
You may now send and receive emails using your email account, which is now ready.
Using multi-factor authentication to protect your email account (TFA)
Your email account is more secure when you use more than one verification method. Once set up, multi-factor authentication will require additional verification of identity with each new password to ensure hackers and other bad actors out of the account. If you enable multi-factor authentication (MFA), hackers will still be unable to access your account even if they guess or discover your password.
Example:
If SMS-based MFA is enabled, an OTP will be texted to the user’s preferred mobile device when the correct password is entered. Once you have entered the OTP, you will be able to access your account.
- Accepting MFA
- Zoho offers four MFAs:
- YubiKey
- OTP authenticator
For further security, you may configure MFA for your account. You can set comprehensive directions for configuring MFA for your account here.
Messages on your mobile
The Zoho Mail mobile app allows you to check and respond to work emails from anywhere. More than just another email client, the Zoho Mail mobile app has many other useful features. Among its many features are a calendar, a contact manager, and a file manager. Mobile-optimized features, like fast swipe actions, give users more freedom of move.