Windows 10: Windows 10 Add Mail Account Pop Up in Firefox

I had to reinstall Windows the other day because of some corruption on the OS drive. I used the most current ISO from MSFT: Version 1909 build 18363.592 I don't have a lot of programs so the installation and configuration didn't take too long. I have an issue with my Firefox browser as it won't let me email a weblink. I get a popup window asking me to add a mail account which I don't want to do. I already use Outlook 2013 to get my Yahoo Pop3 email and that works just fine. I don't know how to stop the pop up which comes up if I use the Firefox browser email button OR if I try to email a link from the webpage share button.


My old version of Win10 1903 did not have this problem and I wonder if this is a new Win10 bug. I have an MSFT account and want to know how to get around this issue.

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Add or Delete Account in Windows 10 Mail app  


Hello Be4stElectrjc,

If you like, you could use step 14 to add a POP account to the Mail app.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...tml#option1s14

 

Mail App - Cannot set up 'Other account POP, IMAP'


Hi, my first post on the forum - can someone help?

I can't see how to set up 'Other account POP, IMAP' in the Win 10 mail app - or rather I can see how to set up accounts and either the app is faulty or I must be missing something, because I've tried using the advanced settings as recommended in the Ten Forums tutorial on the mail app (Mail app - Add or Delete Account in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums) but I don't see anywhere to put the actual email address for the account I'm trying to set up.

Likewise if I do it step by step setup from the 'Other account POP, IMAP' link in setup although I can put the email address in this eventually gets overwritten by my username when setup is finished - I have my own domain and my hosts username format is totally different to my email address - e.g. the mail format would be 'someone@mydomain.com' whilst the username would be in the format 'mydomain.com_someone' - the app appears to assume that mail address and username are going to be the same as when setup is completed the app shows my username as my email address. I've set up an ActiveSync account fine but I'm stumped on setting my personal mailbox up.

I'm probably being stupid, but any help/advice please? Thanks.

 

Strange Windows 10 User Account issue.

Unfortunately I had done those steps numerous reboots, it just, reappears for no good reason. The base account isn't even a Microsoft account, it's a local account.

I haven't quite tried the built in administrator account on W10, but so far in my experience on my own computer, the built in account seemed to have absolutely no more control than I did on my own.

It's just strange, I go in, it warns me twice about deleting the account, then it's gone. Reboot, and it's back?

EDIT: Just to specify, both command line and Netplwiz both say only HIS account exists on the computer, it doesn't list this rogue account. This is what I meant in my first post about the fact that even Windows doesn't seem to believe it exists, HALF the time. *Frown