For example, if your Comcast address is then your username is timĬomcast has an article listing these configuration details and step-by-step setup instructions for Apple Mail and other email applications. Username: the first part of your email address, the part before the symbol. Check your settings with these for IMAP Configure Outlook 2007 for Comcast Email. Port 465 with both SSL and Authentication on Despite being told Comcast mail will not work with POP settings, that is NOT true. Older versions of OS X might not be able to automatically set up your Comcast account so here are the settings you would need, if you were manually adding your Comcast account. Thus, I could simply proceed with adding the new IMAP account to my client’s email application, either Apple Mail or Microsoft Outlook.Īpple’s Mail application can automatically set up and configure your Comcast account if you’re using OS X Mavericks or OS X Yosemite. If the Mail Client allows you to select an authentication method, choose STARTTLS. However, in my experience, when I’ve filled out that form, I’ve been notified that the account in question has already been migrated. To configure an email client to use Comcast email (), the following settings should be used for sending and receiving email: Incoming Mail Server Name: Incoming Mail Server Port Number: 993 with SSL ON. Use host and port 993 for incoming mail and. This way, when they delete an email from their Comcast Inbox on their iPhone, the message also disappears from the Inbox on their iPad or Mac.Īccording to this TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) article about Comcast adding IMAP support, customers might need to request to have their account migrated to one of Comcast’s new servers that supports IMAP. In general, Comcast email does not work on iPhone because of incorrect Mail app settings.
Over the past few months I’ve switched a number of users from using POP to using IMAP to access their Comcast account. In my experience, Comcast was the last major email provider to support IMAP and I’m glad they finally do. (Read this previous Tech Tip about IMAP if you’d like to learn a bit more.) Comcast started to support IMAP around the end of 2013. IMAP offers more sophisticated email management if you access your email account using multiple computers, tablets or smartphones.
IMAP refers to the way your email application, such as Apple Mail, interacts with the mail server. Do you use a Comcast email account? If so, you might be interested to know that Comcast email accounts are now IMAP-enabled.
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