Settings

  1. Change password
  2. Set up the email client
  3. Enable notifications
  4. Add an avatar to your Yandex.Mail account
  5. Change your first name, last name, gender, or year of birth
  6. Create your own folders
  7. Change your sender name and signature
  8. Change the interface language
  9. Organize mailing lists
  10. Configure mail importing or email filters

Set up the email client

Using the Yandex.Mail web interface isn't the only way you can access your mailbox. Download and install the Yandex.Mail mobile app (Android or iOS) on your smartphone or use a pre-installed email client. To do this, enable the IMAP or POP3 protocol in your mailbox settings and then set up the email client following the instructions for your platform.

Note. We recommend configuring the program via IMAP. This way, your mailbox activity syncs between your phone and the server.

If you configure your mail client via POP3, all the messages that are available in the web interface will be downloaded to your phone. Use the "Save a copy of the email to the server" option if your mail client provides it. You can't enable this option in the Yandex.Mail web interface settings.

Android
  1. Please enter your email address and password (or the application password if you have two-factor authentication enabled) and tap Next.
  2. Set the account type to IMAP.

  3. Enter the following information:

    • Server: imap.yandex.com
    • Port: 993
    • Security type: SSL/TLS

    Tap Next.

  4. Enter the following information:

    • SMTP server: smtp.yandex.com
    • Port: 465
    • Security type: SSL/TLS

    Enable the Log in to the system option, type your username and password, and tap Next.

  5. Specify how frequently you want to check your Inbox folder and enable the appropriate options. Tap Next.

  6. Specify the account name and your name for outgoing messages. Tap Next.

iOS
  1. Specify your name for outgoing messages.
  2. Please enter your email address and password (or the application password if you have two-factor authentication enabled).
  3. Specify the account name. Tap Next.
  4. Select Mail. Tap Save.
Windows Phone
  1. Go to Settings → Email + accounts.
  2. Tap add service.
  3. Tap advanced.
    Attention. Note that if you accidentally tap another account instead of advanced, your email client won't be configured properly.
  4. Set the account type to Internet mail:.
  5. Please enter your email address and password (or the application password if you have two-factor authentication enabled). Tap Next.
  6. Enter the following information:
    • Your name (for outgoing messages).
    • Incoming mail server: imap.yandex.com:993.
    • Account type: IMAP4.
    • Your username.
    • Your password.
    • Outgoing mail server: smtp.yandex.com:465.

    Tap advanced settings and enable the following options:

    • Outgoing mail server requires user authentication.
    • Use the same username and password for sending mail.
    • Incoming mail requires SSL.
    • Outgoing mail requires SSL.

    Tap Log in.

Enable notifications

Restriction. You can enable notifications only in the Chromium browser (version 29 or later).

Tap the icon in the top left corner of the screen, tap Settings under the list of folders and enable the Notifications option.

Add an avatar to your Yandex.Mail account

You can change your profile picture in Yandex.Passport (see Picture).

Change your first name, last name, gender, or year of birth

To change the personal information you entered when creating a Yandex account, do the following:

  1. Go to Yandex.Passport.
  2. Tap Edit personal information.
  3. Make the necessary changes.
  4. Tap Save.

Create your own folders

You can create your own folders in the full version of Yandex.Mail (see Folders).

Change your sender name and signature

You can change your sender name and signature in the full version of Yandex.Mail (see Changing names and Signature).

Organize mailing lists

If you receive subscriptions in your Inbox folder, Yandex.Mail can help you organize them. Divide all your subscriptions into the ones you read and the ones you don't read. Email from mailing lists you do read will arrive in your Inbox, while new email from the mailing lists you don't read will be automatically sent to the Trash folder.

Attention. All emails in the Trash folder are automatically deleted in 31 days. Note that you will not be able to recover the deleted emails.
  1. View all your subscriptions
  2. Move emails to the Trash folder
  3. Receive emails in Inbox again

View all your subscriptions

  1. Tap in the upper left corner.
  2. Tap Settings under the list of folders.
  3. Choose Manage mailing lists.

You will see all of your mailing lists on the Active tab. To view recent messages from a specific address, tap on it.

Move emails to the Trash folder

  1. On the Active tab, select the subscriptions you want to hide. New emails from these addresses will be automatically sent to the Trash folder.
  2. Tap Hide <number> mailing lists.
  3. Enable the Delete old emails option if you want to move old messages from the selected addresses from Inbox to Trash .
  4. Tap Hide <number> mailing lists.

Receive emails in Inbox again

  1. Open the Hidden tab.
  2. Mark the subscriptions you want to read. New emails from these addresses will arrive in your Inbox folder.
  3. Tap Activate <number> subscriptions.
  4. Confirm activation.

Configure mail importing or email filters

You can configure the mail importer to forward email from another mailbox, and set up email filters in the full version of Yandex.Mail.

Note. To switch to the full version of Yandex.Mail, tap the button in the upper left corner of the screen and then, on the page that opens, the Full version button at the bottom of the page. To return to the mobile version, tap Light version at the bottom of the page.

If you've encountered a problem with the mobile version of Yandex.Mail, please contact us via the mobile Yandex.Mail feedback form:

  1. Tap in the upper left corner.
  2. Tap Help and feedback under the folder list.
  3. Describe your problem in as much detail as possible.
Attention. If you'd like to report a problem with the mobile Yandex.Mail version, please use the feedback form in the mobile version rather than the one in Help. This way your request will be received by the right support specialists and you will get a quicker response. When you send a report via Yandex.Mail, our specialists can view all the relevant technical information to help you more effectively.

If you can't open the mobile version of Yandex.Mail and use it to contact us, please send the error message via the feedback form.