How to Add or Delete Accounts in Mail app in Windows 10
The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on what’s important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.
If you don't want to continue to receive email from a particular account in the Mail app for Windows 10, you can either delete the account and remove it from the app, or you can turn off email for that account. Deleting or removing an account from either app will also remove any calendar associated with that account. Turning off email for an account will only temporarily remove the account from the app until email is turned back on for the account.
When you add or remove accounts in your Mail app, the account will also automatically be added or removed from your Calendar app.
This tutorial will show you how to add or delete email accounts in the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.
Contents
- Option One: To Add a New Account to Mail app in Windows 10
- Option Two: To Delete Account from Mail app in Windows 10
1 Do step 2 (Mail app) or step 3 (Settings) below for how you would like to add an account.
A) Open the Mail app.
B) If this is the first time opening the Mail app, click/tap on Get started, click/tap on Add account, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshots below)
If you signed in to Windows 10 with a Microsoft account, then your email address for the Microsoft account will already be added as an account to the Mail app.
If you don't want to add another account, then click/tap on Ready to go instead, and go to step 12 below.
C) Click/tap on the Settings button at the bottom of the left pane, and click/tap on Manage Accounts in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)
D) Click/tap on Add account, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below)
A) Open Settings, and click/tap on the Accounts icon.
B) Click/tap on Email & accounts on the left side, click/tap on Add an account under Accounts used by email, calendar, and contacts on the right side, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below)
4 Do step 5 (Outlook), step 6 (Exchange), step 7 (Google), step 8 (Yahoo), step 9 (iCloud), step 10 (other POP/IMAP), or step 11 (Advanced setup) below for what kind of account you want to add. (see screenshot below)
You can use this option to add Microsoft accounts (ex: Outlook, Live, Hotmail, and MSN accounts) to your Mail app.
A) Click/tap on Outlook.com. (see screenshot below step 4)
B) Enter your email address and password, click/tap on Sign in, click/tap on Done, and go to step 12 below. (see screenshot below)
You can use this option to add Exchange and Office 365 accounts to your Mail app.
A) Click/tap on Exchange. (see screenshot below step4)
B) Enter your email address, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)
C) Enter your password, click/tap on Sign-in, and go to step 12 below. (see screenshot below)
You can use this option to add a Google account to your Mail app.
A) Click/tap on Google. (see screenshot below step 4)
B) Enter your email address and password, and click/tap on Sign-in. (see screenshot below)C) Click/tap on Accept. (see screenshot below)
If you do not have a Google account, then you can click/tap on the Create an account link above to create one to add to your Mail app.
See: Why Google asks for your information at sign-up - Accounts Help
D) Click/tap on Done, and go to step 12 below. (see screenshot below)
You can use this option to add Yahoo! accounts to your Mail app.
A) Click/tap on Yahoo! Mail. (see screenshot below step 4)
B) Enter your email address and password, click/tap on Sign in, click/tap on Done, and go to step 12 below. (see screenshot below)
You can use this option to add an iCloud account to your Mail app.
A) Click/tap on iCloud. (see screenshot below step 4)
B) Enter your email address and password, click/tap on Sign-in, and go to step 12 below. (see screenshot below)
You can use this option to add other POP and IMAP accounts to your Mail app.
If you like, you can use step 11 below instead to add POP and IMAP accounts with advanced setup instead.A) Click/tap on Other account. (see screenshot below step 4)
B) Enter your email address and password, click/tap on Sign-in, and go to step 12 below. (see screenshot below)
You can use this option to add an Exchange ActiveSync or Internet email (POP and IMAP) account with advanced setup to your Mail app.
Please check with your ISP (Internet Service Provider) for their POP or IMAP settings.
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* Yahoo Mail POP and IMAP settings[/LIST]
A) Click/tap on Advanced setup. (see screenshot below step 4)
B) Click/tap on Exchange ActiveSync or Internet email to choose what kind of account you want to setup. (see screenshot below)
C) Enter your account information, click/tap on Sign-in, and go to step 12 below. (see screenshots below).
If you wanted to specify a port number for your IMAP (incoming) or SMTP (outgoing) email server, then after the name of the server enter a colon followed by the port number, another colon, and 1.
For example: smtp.gmail.com:465:1
12 The account will now be added to the accounts list in the left pane of Mail to be able to switch between accounts.
1 Do step 2 (Mail app) or step 3 (Settings) below for how you would like to delete an account.
A) Open the Mail app.
B) Click/tap on the Settings button at the bottom of the left pane, and click/tap on Manage Accounts in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)
C) Click/tap on the account you want to remove, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below)
A) Open Settings, and click/tap on the Accounts icon.
B) Click/tap on Email & accounts on the left side, click/tap on the account you want to delete under Accounts used by email, calendar, and contacts on the right side, click/tap on Manage, and go to step 4 below. (see screenshot below)
4 Click/tap on Delete account from this device. (see screenshot below)
5 Click/tap on Delete to confirm. (see screenshot below)
6 The account will now be removed from the accounts list in the left pane of Mail.
That's it,
Shawn
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