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.

Click on add account in mail.

Scroll down past Other account and you will see the option for "Advanced Setup" ... this is where you want to set that one up. :)

Hi RWOne - many thanks for replying :) Unfortunately I've tried that too and if you go there, there isn't a field to insert the email address in! There's account name - but that's just what you want to call it in the app for reference purposes and it has no bearing on the send/receive process - and all the other expected fields (except there doesn't seem to be an option for changing ports). I have a feeling that M$ may have made a slight error on this one.

In itself on my PCs this won't be too much of a problem in the short term as I can use Outlook for these accounts, but when my Windows Phone upgrades to 10 as it's scheduled to do I'm worried that this unbelievable error will be carried over, which will cause me problems

CeeBee said:

Hi RWOne - many thanks for replying :) Unfortunately I've tried that too and if you go there, there isn't a field to insert the email address in! There's account name - but that's just what you want to call it in the app for reference purposes and it has no bearing on the send/receive process - and all the other expected fields (except there doesn't seem to be an option for changing ports). I have a feeling that M$ may have made a slight error on this one.

I noticed the same thing. I never managed to get the Windows 10 "Mail" "app" fully working with my ISP POP3 account, even though I've never had any trouble getting any other email client to work with it. Outlook 2007 is currently working with it just fine. I managed to get the Windows 10 "Mail" "app" to send emails, but it never received any. I gave up on it and "uninstalled" it because I didn't like it anyway. It is incredibly dumbed-down; it doesn't even have a send/receive button. It makes Outlook Express (which I would still be using if I could) look like a full-featured email client, even though it was already sort of a stripped-down version of Outlook.

Similar setup problems for me for my POP3 email. No problems with Outlook but there aren't enough user configurable settings in Win 10 Mail app to customize it to my ISP. If any Microsoft folks out there can share registry tweakable settings some of us might be able to get this app to work for us.

CeeBee said:

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.

It seams now that it is working, since this week an update rollup for Windows 10 is available. Now there is a field for setting the email address.