Microsoft researched a lot about how people use email and email apps before building the Windows Mail App. It realized users today have multiple email accounts and receive more and more emails each year. Therefore, an app aggregating multiple email accounts should provide an easy way out to the users. Hence, Windows Mail App!
Although Windows Mail App aggregates multiple email accounts, it not clearly shown how to add multiple accounts to it. We have already seen some free email clients. In this post, we will let you know how to go about it. No need of POP or IMAP settings – all you require is your login credentials!
Set up Mail App in Windows 11/10
To begin with, from your Start, click open the Mail app.
You will get a notification ‘You aren’t signed with a Microsoft account. To use mail, sign in with a Microsoft account and try again’.
Enter your credentials here and sign in with your Microsoft account.
Once done, your Microsoft account will be configured on the Windows Mail app. Now, you will also have the choice to add multiple email accounts.
Add multiple email accounts to Windows Mail app
Once you have configured your Microsoft account, you will be provided with a clue for adding multiple email accounts to the Windows Mail App.
Click on Accounts on the left side, and a panel will pop out from the right side. Here click on ‘+ Add account’ to add an email account.
I chose Gmail as the second mail ID to be added; i.e., Google account.
Once selected, enter the required information and click ‘Connect’ to connect to your email account.
That’s it!
You will have now added a new email account to the Windows Mail app. Likewise, you can add other accounts too.
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Very nice!
As this isn’t a first time install, I don’t have “the clue” to add other email accounts. I would like to add a second email account but there is no “Accounts” in settings with a windows search, and certainly nothing showing up as shown in “Windows 8 Tile Add Option”. ack.
Open your email window, then open settings by moving mouse to top right. There should be “accounts” under the settings tab. It took me a little but, but that’s where I found it. Good luck.
Can you please tell me how to remove an account that you wish you had never added to Windows 8 mail?!
once you have added an account…. lets say a yahoo account with the help of IMAP settings in Windows 8 MAIL, now we want to hide the email of that account for sometime, we went to the settings .—-> accounts—–> desired account and unchecked EMAIL SYNC. now the account is removed form the Windows 8 Mail, now what to do if we again want to sync the email ………. the account has disappeared from the settings—-> accounts tab… i cannot add that account as it says the account is already added…. what to do now… how can i get my email again….. please help….
Thanks – going to the right was the trick – i saw a floating menu come up when I scrolled mouse to the right corner. Great tip :)
Are you logged in as administrator? Switch to a different account and try again.
uncheck the authentication required and SSL fields
hey i did the same but it show’s nothing when i click on add more accounts
any idea why its so
Once you added additional accounts, how do you reorder them? At the bottom left they show in the order in which they were added. Can I change the order without deleting and re-adding?
Hey I had the same issue with my computer. I wasted my time on it for
many days but finally I got a solution from this link
http://www.microsoftliveassist.com/cant-access-account-windows-live-mail-does-not-recognize-account-credentials/
Help! I’m finding it very difficult to add more than one email account?
I have looked at the suggestions from micro’ to no avail ! any advice out there please
many thanks
how many email at maximum can i add at a time in windows mail app??