Your Proton credentials are the username and password you choose during signup. This article explains the difference between Proton credentials and OpenVPN / IKEv2 credentials, what they are used for, and where you can find them. If you would like to merge one account into another account, please see Combining accounts.You can access Proton VPN using two sets of credentials, your Proton VPN login credentials, and OpenVPN / IKEv2 credentials. For more information, see Aliases and Addresses in Proton Mail (new window). Otherwise, you can also create a new account at /pricing (new window) or add additional usernames to your account. If you would like us make these changes, please contact our support team (new window).

Usernames and email addresses are not case-sensitive, so these changes are purely cosmetic. We can change capital letters to sentence case and vice versa

Once a user takes a specific username, none of these variations can be used for a different account.Ģ. That is, username is the same as user_name and user.name, etc. This is possible because these characters are treated as transparent by our service. Changing your username would change the key that was used to send and receive all the emails in your inbox.ġ. This key allows you to send and receive emails using Proton Mail’s encryption. When you created your account, you also created a key that was matched to your username. Your username is the beginning part of the main email address that you created to sign up for your Proton Mail account ( Unfortunately, we cannot change the main login username on your account.

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