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At mail.com, we care deeply about your online security. So we recommend you also take the following steps to keep your email account and devices safe:
When you send and receive emails, data is transferred through the internet. To safeguard this data during transmission, it’s transferred using the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) transfer protocol or its successor TLS (Transport Layer Security). Your internet browser (e.g. Edge, Chrome, Firefox) automatically establishes a shared session key with mail.com, which is used to secure the data in both directions.
The messages in your inbox, the documents you store in the mail.com cloud, and your Online Office files are all stored on the extremely secure mail.com servers, which are located in the United States.
The primary factors in the strength of a password are the mix of characters it contains as well as its length – it should contain at least eight characters, and 12 is even better. A password should also never contain obvious words and phrases. If your password has a mixture of upper- and lowercase letters, numerals and symbols and is at least eight characters long, you have created a strong password. If you have problems coming up with or remembering such passwords, try using a password generator or password management tool.
Log in to your mail.com account. From the Homepage, go to the left navigation bar and click > Mail Security. The mail.com virus protection and spam protection are activated by default. We strongly recommend that you leave them turned on.
Once you have logged in to your mail.com account, from the Homepage click > Security Options. This opens the page where you can change your password or other information such as your contact email address, cell phone number and security question. These items are an essential part of our password recovery process, so we urge you to keep them up to date. You can also reset your auto-login on this page.
If you use the mail.com Mail app, you can lock you email account on your phone with a 4-digit PIN. Once you have installed the app, log in and go to > Settings to activate the PIN-protected mode.