Windows 10: Mail app does not sync & Error 0X80004005 adding account in Mail app

Hi, so my Mail app stopped syncing any new emails for my gmail accounts. It was random and was working fine before. In the mail app when I went to manage accounts, i selected one of my accounts and something will open and close very quickly that I can't see in time! I decided to choose add account instead but then i get ERROR CODE: 0X80004005.


I tried checking many things: uninstalling the app, checking the settings, allowing windows access, the IMAP method. I've read other solutions and microsoft is useless at helping, I can't even get through. ANY advice please ?


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Original Title : I'm very mad, any advice greatly appreciated ~ MICROSOFT ERROR CODE

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error 0x8007042b when adding a Yahoo Mail account to MS Mail App

I went this route and added passwords for yahoo mail. I might try this method above to get gmail to buck up! *Tongue

@Bastet, this is probably what you were referring to the whole time.


YAHOO MAIL FIX
2FA needs to be enabled which it already was and just follow these steps below.

1. In yahoo mails account security, click on manage app passwords.




2. After selecting other app and entering the new app name in the text box




3. Now, in Windows 10 mail app, add this type of account.




4. In Windows 10 mail app, enter your details and the password generated by step 2.




Fully functional mail app again.



GMAIL FIX

Now similar steps to setting up Gmail. Here I'll only go through the Gmail steps as Windows Mail App setup is the exact same.

Follow this jpeg below, all steps are merged as there's a 5 attachment limit.





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I've edited it to show the solution for Gmail also.

 

error 0x8007042b when adding a Yahoo Mail account to MS Mail App

Yes, once 2-factor authentication is enabled you should then create the app specific password & enter it instead of the account password.

 

Mail app says account is synced, but account not showing up in app


When I first installed Windows 10, I added two Gmail accounts to the mail app and everything worked fine. Suddenly, neither account is showing up in the app, yet when I try to re-add the account, it says it already exists. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.