subject: Recover Email Account - A Basic Guide For Gmail [print this page] Emails have become a widespread tool for communication. Whether you are at office or home, emails are a necessity for everywhere. Although, with the advent of instant messaging tools, the popularity of emails has dropped a bit amongst home users. However, for offices, emails are still a fundamental necessity.
You should always be aware of the email recovery options that your email client provides. You may now think that you will not need to resort to any email recovery because you remember your username and password perfectly well. However, you may require to maintain multiple email accounts in future. There can be occasions when you lose the file where your email IDs and passwords were stored, you forget your password or email ID. In addition, if your system is crashed and you need to send an urgent email, you may not be able to because you forgot your user ID, password, or both. Again, there can be issues while your account is getting loaded or sever errors. The bottom line is you should be aware of what you can do or where you can look in such scenarios.
In this article, I will explain how you can login to your email account in case you have forgotten your password. However, before I begin, please note that you at least need to remember the answer of your security question or the login details of your recovery email address.
In case you do not remember your password, click on the Forgot Password option below the Gmail login fields. First, you need to enter your username and submit it. If your username is accepted, then you will receive a picture called CAPTCHA. You will need to enter the numbers and words in the picture and submit it. After you have submitted the correct numbers or words in the picture, you will see a notification from Gmail saying that your password-resetting link has been send to your recovery email.
In case you have forgotten the login credentials of your recovery email address or your do not have any recovery email, you need to wait for 24 hours. Do not attempt to log into your account in these 24 hours. Please note that the 24-hour time slot begins from your last login attempt.
After 24 hours, you need to visit the Gmail login page again. From there, go to the password recovery page. Now, submit your username and submit the numbers of words written in CAPTCHA. Then Gmail will prompt you for your security question. Answer the security question correctly and you will be able to login to your account.
Please note that in case you do not have or remember both security question and recovery address, you should contact Gmail to access your account. There are various email repair or email recovery software available online. However, to recover your Gmail ID, you need not need such third party email repair software. Please be on your guard, because some of these can be malware in disguise.
