Microsoft Act. - Why Does Pw Work Sometimes And Not At Others

I know this makes no sense whatsoever - but here goes.
I'm sure the microsoft act. pw is valid - whenever i go to microsoft act. sign in box, the pw gets me in. Here's what doesn't make any sense: I'm supposed to already have an account. whenever i open the win 10 start menu and click on "mail", i get a big blue dialog box with the word "mail" in the upper left and the word "accounts" in the center. under this it says
+ add account. my only option is to click "add account" which opens a new screen - "choose an account" with several options ( microsoft account, outlook.com, exchange, google, etc etc). I want to access my microsoft act. to read my mail so I click on the icon for that. the next screen asks me "pls reenter your PW. i do so (same pw i used to access this comm. site ) and click

"sign in". the next screen is always the "something went wrong" screen with the error code

0x801901f4 error code . i searched this error code pulled up a few hits but still wasn't able to

resolve this issue. i don't know if this is a pw issue, corrupt file or what - however i can go to a microsoft act. sign in screen, enter my credentials and i can access my ms act.



to put it another way - how should i access my mail account - it's obviously not thru the start menu.



any help GREATLY app

roger

 

No, it's not. Access your mail via your web browser, not the Mail app. I don't use the Mail app but it looks to me rather like an online email client - an app rather like Thunderbird or Windows Live Mail, that allows you to collect mail from several accounts in one place, but which will sync your mail across several devices. You can do the same in Gmail but Gmail doesn't ask you to install and setup an app to do so. Maybe I'm misunderstanding Mail and if so hopefully someone will give us the correct explanation, but in the meantime, if you only have the one email address, use your browser.

 

sounds like a plan to me - app the come back