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Windows Mail App Bug - Not sending e-mails from Gmail accounts
Hello, everyone! I'm a long-term user of the Windows Mail and Calendar app, and it has always worked like a charm for me. However, something happened recently and now every time I try to send awa...
Found a solution for this exact problem. You have to manually uninstall the mail app then reinstall it through the windows store. I tried to reset the mail app but that didn't work.
How to uninstall the Mail app on Windows 10
- Right-click start button and select Windows PowerShell,
- right-click and select Run as administrator.
- Copy & Paste: 'Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps | Remove-AppxPackage'
How to reinstall the Mail app on Windows 10
- Open Windows Store and search for Mail and Calendar and click install.
I learned this trick from this video:
https://youtu.be/k39Rq4q91mw?t=133
Hello,
Try re-registering the app, see if makes any differences. Perform these steps:
1. Search for Windows PowerShell using Cortana or Windows Search.
2. From results, right click on Windows PowerShell and select Run as administrator.
3. Then type following command and press Enter key:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml” -Verbose}
Let the command complete.
4. Close Windows PowerShell and see if the issue is resolved now.
Let us know if this helps!
Try re-registering the app, see if makes any differences. Perform these steps:
1. Search for Windows PowerShell using Cortana or Windows Search.
2. From results, right click on Windows PowerShell and select Run as administrator.
3. Then type following command and press Enter key:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml” -Verbose}
Let the command complete.
4. Close Windows PowerShell and see if the issue is resolved now.
Let us know if this helps!
- It helped me today (28_Dec-2021), thank you vert much!
- After I did a new reset on the app, I started adding my e-mail accounts. I first added the "hotmail" account without any problems. But when I tried to add the gmail, there was error 0x80070490. I followed the online steps to solve it, and it was solved: the gmail account was added. However, the problem sending e-mails away persisted.
- I tried this and re-tried all the aforementioned actions again, but it didn't work. I still can't send e-mails from a Gmail account on the app, although I can normally send them through other non-Gmail accounts on the app. The non-sent e-mails go to the "e-mail outbox" on the app and to the "draft box" on Gmail website, although they appear the formatting is all messed up on the site (with spaces added between each letter).
Hello! PowerShell is a great tool, but most users don't have the experience of using the command line and will definitely have concerns about applying this pleat.
But it can definitely cause repair!
Thank you
