Windows 10: Cannot add Google to Windows Mail

I have recently bought a Surface book 2 and my Windows 10 is brand new. Unfortunately I cannot add my Gmail account to WIndows Mail and I keep getting error: 0x8007042b.


I have already looked up and tried different potential solutions from this forum or Google but nothing helps. Does anybody know how to fix this? It is a bit hilarious that a clean system has this type of issues.


Cheers,

Stefano

:)

 

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)

 

Google account (mail / calendar) not syncing in Windows 10

First confirm if you have two step authentication in you Google account.
If YES follow these steps:

To have the Windows Mail app to work you have to generate a password for the Windows Mail app in your Google account at https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords
Copy/paste this password into the password field of your Gmail account in the Mail app Settings/Accounts/Gmail
This needs to be done only once.

Also check in Windows 10 Settings/Privacy if you have in Contacts AND Calender the Mail and Agenda allowed access ON
If both are OFF the Mail app won't sync without throwing any error!!
Just one off the many bugs in Mail app!

 

google mail

Hi jaykay42,



Thank you for posting to the Microsoft Community. I understand you're running in to some issues syncing with your Google Mail account where you're only able to sync around 400 older, archived emails. Can you please let me know how old these emails are? What
is the date for the most recent one?



The page located at
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/How-to/wp7/people/sync-google-email-contacts-and-calendars-faq contains the basics for setting up your Google email, contacts, and calendars for syncing with Windows Phone. It may be a good idea to have a look there to
start and see if any of the listed steps help to clear any issues up.



Some other possibilities for a resolution will include disabling the mail sync for your Google Mail account under
settings > system > email + accounts and enabling it again, or trying a soft reset of your phone by removing the battery for a few minutes (if possible).



Please let me know any additional details you're able to find out and let me know also if any of my other suggestions were able to clear the issue up.



Regards,