Windows 10: Can opening an email in the Mail and Calendar app lead to Malware infection or some other...

To be clear, I mean specifically opening the email within the app, not clicking any links or attachments.I recently received and email from someone claiming to be microsoft, I think it's legit but I wanted to make sure.I have clipped a bit to hide my own email address and real name, this is the top of the email with the sender address, it did not appear in my spam folder.While I was looking for a moment at 365 I have not purchased it.I have also run a virus scan with AVG and Malwarebytes Free, nothing was found.I am probably being paranoid but I would appreciate an answer, should I be concerne

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Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hey Shawn,
I did that to no avail, then I ran WSReset.exe; now I'm good on all 3, Mail, Calendar and People! *Confused
Go figure!

Store Cache - Clear in Windows 8

 

Cannot open mail app settings


OK, my next suggestion was going to be uninstalling Mail and Calendar and reinstalling from the Windows Store. You can have a go at this by following these steps.

1. Open the Start menu, type Windows PowerShell.
2. Right click on the Windows PowerShell and select Run as administrator.
3. Enter the below command to remove the Mail and calendar app.

get-appxpackage *microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps* | remove-appxpackage

After performing the above steps, install the Mail and calendar app from the Windows Store.

Hope this helps, you will, of course, have to add you accounts back again.