Outlook.com not syncing with outlook app/Windows Phone. Receiving error message We’re updating your Inbox.

Original Title: Outlook.com not syncing with outlook app/Windows Phone

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire R7 convertible laptop.  It is running windows 8.

I have had a MS account with a gmail email address as my username.  I added an alias *** Email address is removed for privacy ***, and removed all of the gmail associations, both within my MS Live account, and my email accounts.  After doing this, I can not receive or send any emails to/from my outlook.com account, my mail app on Windows 8, or my Windows 8 smartphone.  I tried to manually sync my mail in the mail app by pressing the sync button, but I get a message in the top right hand side of the window that says *** Email address is removed for privacy *** is unavailable. 

I thought maybe it was just a problem with the email address, so I added an alias - *** Email address is removed for privacy ***.  Still the same issue, with one exception.  Now when I try to log onto outlook.com, it now says "We're updating your inbox".  I thought maybe it just needs some time, so I waited to check on it until this morning.  I still can not send or receive emails to either of my outlook accounts.  Additionally, my outlook accounts will not sync to my Lumia 1020. 

I tried sending a test email to my outlook.com address from my gmail address, and it was sent back to me.  The message that was sent back read:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
        nathanieldodge@outlook.com

Final-Recipient: rfc822;nathanieldodge@outlook.
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.1.1 Mailbox nathanieldodge%outlook.com@7/