How to delete an Email account from Mail app in Windows 10

If you don't want to use an email account in the Mail app, you can delete it from there. You can follow this guide step by step to delete an email account from Windows 10 Mail app. You can also delete the account from the Calendar app.

If you added an email account to your Windows 10 computer by mistake or if you no longer want to use your added email ID, you can delete it from your PC as well as the Mail app. This will help you make your Mail application less cluttered. You can add almost any email account, including Outlook.com, Office 365, Google account, Yahoo, iCloud, etc. in Mail app and enable synchronization.

Remove an email account from the Windows 10 Mail app

To remove an email account from the Mail app in Windows 10, follow these steps:

1. Open the Mail app on Windows 10
2. Open its settings
3. Select Manage Accounts
4. Select the email ID you want to delete from the Mail app
5. Click on Delete Account option
6. Confirm the change.

Now let's review the tutorial using screenshots.

Open the Mail app on your Windows 10 computer. Here you should find all the email accounts that you added in this app. You need to click on the settings gear icon which is visible on your left.

It will expand the Settings pane on your right. From there you have to click on the Manage accounts option. After that, you should find all the email IDs that you included in the Mail app. Click on the email ID you want to delete.

You should now see the Account Settings window where you should click on the Delete account option.

For your information, there is another method to open the Account Settings window in the Mail app. For this you need to right click on the email ID in the Mail app and select the Account settings option.

After that you should see a confirmation window where you have to click on the Remove button.

When the process is complete, it should display a success message.

If you follow all of these steps, your email account will be deleted from your computer with all content synchronized. No matter how many email accounts you've added in the Mail app, you can delete them all by following the same steps.

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