Windows 10: Microsoft Mail and Calendar isn't allowing me to add ANY account.

I've done all the updating and resetting and everything else works fine so don't tell me to do any updates and so forth. Yet the app hangs at the moment when after I gave in the email and password and it moves on to "adding account". It freezes at that moment and never works. It doesn't matter whether the account I want to add is an outlook account (the account I use in Microsoft store) or whether it is a google or yahoo account. The result is the same: it hangs up at the moment of "adding account".


Troubleshooting didn't work (and by the way the troubleshooting doesn't even have a specific "mail and calendar troubleshooting" option anyway, but I nevertheless tried the "windows store troubleshooting" just in case but still no dice.

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

I'm having a problem with the default Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10. For a while I was able to sync my Google account emails (Gmail) and calendar in those apps, but about a week ago, it has stopped working: the calendar is empty (no events, and no calendars listed), and the emails that were already synced are still there, but syncing doesn't bring any new email.

I tried deleting my Google account from the mail (or calendar) app, by going to "settings -> accounts", and then re-creating the account. I did that three times. Each time I was able to complete the following steps:

1. enter my Gmail address,
   
2. then my Google account password,
   
3. then the confirmation code sent by SMS,
   
4. and finally got to the screen "Windows would like to..." (permissions listing), on which I clicked "Accept" (obviously).
   

The first time, I then got a Windows message "Something went wrong", followed by an error code (I didn't write it down).

The second time, I didn't get this error message, so it looked like the account was successfully created (it appeared in my accounts list in the settings of those apps), but nothing was synced: both apps (mail / calendar) remained empty. (I tried syncing manually by clicking the sync button in the mail app: still nothing, even though the app confirmed that it was "up to date".)

For my third attempt, I had found this question, so I went and created an "app password" in my Google account, specifically for those apps. But when I got to the password screen (step 2 described above) and entered this app password instead of my regular account password, I got an error message (from Google) asking me to enter my account password and not an app password. So I did that, and that got me exactly the same result as my second attempt (account created but nothing synced).

I also tried both answers given on the same question (first via "settings > accounts > add account > Other account", and second via "settings > accounts > add account > Advanced setup"), but none of them worked for me (again, account created but nothing synced).

Has anyone experienced the same problems? How can I make this work?

UPDATE: a few months back (early October 2015) I received an email from Microsoft inviting me to "reconnect to Google" (that was the title of the email). I ignored it for a while, but recently followed the steps in this email and now everything seems to be working fine. So I'm guessing that MS somehow fixed whatever bug it was.

 

Can't add outlook account in Mail & calendar app

Hi Suprojit,

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

• Is there a Microsoft account already configure in Mail app?
• If yes, then are you trying to add an account, with the account which is configured?

Please be informed, when you configure a Microsoft account in mobile phone, it will be automatically configured in
Mail & calendar app and People app. Because the People, Mail, and Calendar apps work together.
Microsoft account is a single sign-on web service developed and provided by Microsoft that allows users to log into websites, devices, and applications using one account.

If you are referring to add an account, with the account which is configured I suggest you to try the steps provided in the link below, as the interface, options and settings for both mobile and PC version are same.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-8/remove-account

In future, if you have any issues related to Windows, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.

 

Mail & Calendar App


By default, M&C app will install an outlook account according to your sign in. I sign into W10 with a non MS account "---@gmail.com" so my default account is listed like this, I can't seem to straighten it out/ delete/change it. Suggestions appreciated.