mail.com on vacation: Essential cloud & email features for your summer
It’s vacation season, and you may be hitting the open road, heading for the mountains, or packing up for the beach. Wherever your summer plans are taking you, mail.com is the perfect travel companion – from mobile apps to check your email on the road to secure cloud storage for all those vacation selfies.
by Alyssa SchmittVacation is even better with mail.com email and cloud services
Here are eight handy mail.com features you can use to make your vacation even better!
Are you taking your phone or tablet on vacation but leaving your laptop at home? If you aren’t already using the mail.com Mail app on your mobile device, now is the perfect time to install it! Not only does it give you secure access to all your emails and folders, but to your mail.com Cloud as well. That means all your cloud files are available in the app’s Cloud tab whenever you are connected to the internet. FYI, you can connect more than one mail.com email account to the app and toggle between them. Plus, take advantage of the security and convenience of these app features:
Nowadays our smartphone usually also doubles as our camera for recording all our amazing vacation memories. But if you drop your phone in a pool or it’s snatched by a pickpocket, all those priceless memories will be gone forever. This is why we recommend activating our app’s automatic photo upload feature. Whenever you take a photo with your phone, a backup copy is automatically saved to the mail.com Cloud, where you can access them from any of your devices. Your mail.com account comes with 2 GB of free cloud storage, but if you need more you can even scale up your Cloud no matter where you are as an in-app purchase.
If you want to share your cute vacation pics without using up your data to send huge image files, why not just send a link instead? Once you have saved a photo to your Cloud, you can create a share link and send it to a friend or family member by email or text message. They then click on the secure link and are taken to a Cloud page where they can view the image – or entire folder – that you’ve shared. They don’t need a mail.com account to look at your shared photos, and they can only see the file(s) you’ve chosen to share.
Now that you’ve taken steps to protect your memories, let's protect your data as well! Whether you’re an old hand or a newbie at using our Mail App, you might want an extra security boost when you are traveling. The app does not require you to completely log in and out with your password each time you check your email or use your Cloud. Instead, a convenient way to protect your mail.com account against unauthorized access is to turn on PIN or biometric protection. For instructions, see our explainer: Protect your email app with fingerprint or facial recognition
For those of you who prefer to check your emails on a computer, we get it! A phone’s tiny screen and virtual keyboard are not everyone’s cup of tea. Or maybe you are using your vacation to work on your epic novel, or you have to sneak in a little work on a presentation. Here are two features you may find useful:
Especially if you are going to be checking your email on a public computer or borrowing the laptop of the person you’re visiting, take steps to make your experience as secure as possible:
First, it goes without saying but we’ll say it anyway - NEVER save your password on a device that’s not yours! Second, for extra security using mail.com in a web browser, you can also consider activating two-factor authentication (2FA). When you log into your mail.com account, in addition to your password, you'll be asked to enter a second, one-time password (OTP) generated by an authenticator app on your smartphone. This means that even if someone manages to spy out your password while you are traveling, they cannot log into your email account without this one-time code. To help you decide if 2FA is right for you and your travel plans, see: Email 2FA: How can two-factor authentication keep online accounts safer?
If you are taking your laptop on vacation and plan to get a little work done, you might not want to depend completely on the unreliable Wi-Fi connection at your hotel or RV site. Luckily, you can use our cloud sync tool to make important documents that are stored in your Cloud available for offline use as well.
For more information on how to download and start using our Cloud for Windows and MacOS, see: mail.com Cloud sync tool
If you are traveling to foreign lands, take advantage of the free mail.com online Translator. Whether it’s writing emails ahead of your trip or deciphering signs once you get there, the Translator delivers free and accurate translations between 29 languages. For more details see our explainer: Free translation online: Introducing the mail.com Translator
Maybe you read all the above and thought, “OK, mail.com, thanks for the advice, but for me vacation is about disconnecting. I’m planning a digital detox – no emails for a week!” In which case you have our blessing, but why not let people know that you're offline and when they can reach you again? You can set up vacation email auto replies in your mail.com account by going to E-mail Settings > Autoresponder. If you’d like more detailed instructions, see: How do you create automatic replies in your mail.com account?
mail.com wishes you safe travels this summer! And if you found this article useful, we’d love to hear from you below.
