7 cool features of Yandex. Mail, which not everyone knows about

1. Using a phone number instead of a standard address

In Yandex services, you can use your phone number as an additional login. The same Yandex. Mail" allows you to bind to a mailbox and configure it as an additional address. It may look like [email protected] or [email protected], while all letters will be sent to one box.

Auxiliary login can be only one set of numbers. The email address will stop working if you unlink the number from your account or disable the phone sign-in feature.

To set up the number, go to the "Personal data, signature, portrait" section. There, in the "Send letters from address" item, click "Make phone number as address" and activate the "Phone as login" setting.

It is worth remembering that the mail address can be transferred to another person if you change the number, and your old one is transferred to another subscriber. To prevent this situation, you need to bind a new number to the box.

2. Switching domain names

This is a useful feature in case your mail address with the .ru domain will not accept some service. It is also a convenient option for sending a letter from several addresses at once.

The Mail user is allocated the domain zones yandex.ru, ya.ru, yandex.kz, yandex.by and yandex.com. If you specify addresses with any of these domains when registering on some sites, then letters will still end up in one mailbox.

On the page for sending a letter, you need to select the "From" item, and then click on your address. There will be alternative options in the dropdown list.

3. Labels for letters

With labels, you can streamline letters and quickly find the ones you need. An unlimited number of tags are available for each message. By default, there are standard labels "Important" and "Unread". The list of all labels is in the main menu "Mail".

Labels can be of different colors and with short captions selected by the user. If you click on the icon, a list of all messages with this label will open. Tags "Yandex. Mail can assign automatically, but they can be set manually for each message.

On the letter page, you can select one of the available tags or create a new one. For the new label, a choice of color and title bar is available. You can assign badges directly in the list of letters. Just right-click on the message and select "Tag" from the options provided.

You can also add labels to emails in the Mail mobile app. By long pressing on the corresponding line from the mail list, you will call up the action menu, in which there will be the "Tags" item.

4. Delayed Send

Not everyone uses timed sending, but this is a useful feature that will help you plan your workflow. The delayed messages feature is suitable, for example, for reports that need to be sent at certain times.

The option will also be useful if the company's employees live in different time zones. So you can communicate with colleagues during their working hours. To call the menu for selecting the date and time of sending, you need to click on the clock icon next to the "Send" button.

5. Email Reply Reminder

The opportunity is useful if you regularly write letters to which you must receive a response. This is important in working communication with colleagues from whom some critical information is needed. You will be sure that all important issues are taken care of.

Under the text of the letter, next to the delayed send button, there is a bell icon that hides the reminder settings. If the recipient does not respond to the letter, then you will receive a notification about this after a selected period of time.

In the same menu there is an item "Report message delivery". This is also a useful feature that will make sure that the message is exactly received by the addressee. It can be used, for example, when sending for the first time to a new postal address.

6. View all messages in a conversation

Sometimes you need to go through emails from one specific address to find missing information or delete all messages. To look at the desired list, in an open letter, click on the sender's name, and then on the "Correspondence" button.

Then you can quickly place labels, add everything to a separate folder, send it to another address, or simply get rid of all correspondence.

7. Document Scanner

This feature is only available in the Yandex. Mail. It allows you to quickly capture information from a paper book or document with a smartphone camera. "Scanner" is located in the "More" section of the main menu.

The resulting scans can be sent by mail, saved to the gadget's memory and uploaded to Yandex. Disk". PNG, PDF or JPEG formats are available. "Scanner" crops the page along the contour, removes shadows, corrects contrast, adds clarity. In the settings, you can select the processing area. But the text cannot be transferred to an editable format.