Comcast Email Settings: How to Manage Your Xfinity Email Settings (IMAP, SMTP, POP3, Mail Server Setup)
The instructions contained in this article only apply to users who have already configured their Xfinity email accounts via POP.
In addition, this guide assumes that while setting up your email through POP, you chose not to retain emails in the server after downloading them to the email client
Comcast is a popular Internet Serv,ice Provider (ISP) in the United States that provides free email accounts to those who subscribe through the ISP.
A common task that Comcast subscribers face is configuring their email program to download and send email using their Comcast email account.
Comcast email su.pp.orts all major email programs on the market and can be used for secure and non-secure POP3 email.
Comcast.net Email Settings (Configuration updated)
To configure an email client to use Comcast email (@comcast.net), the following settings should be used for sending and receiving email:
• Incoming Mail Server Name: imap.comcast.net
• Incoming Mail Server Port Nu.mbe.r:
o Recommended: 993 with SSL ON
o Only if Needed: 143 with SSL ON
• Outgoing Mail Server Name: smtp.comcast.net
• Outgoing Mail Server Port Nu.mbe.r:
o Recommended: 587 (SMTP)
o Only if Needed: 465 (SMTPS)
• SSL Encryption: checked
• Authentication: Xfinity username and password required
Using POP3 to retrieve email will cause a less than optimal experience, especially when you use multiple devices to check your email. We strongly recommend IMAP over POP since this will keep your emails in sync across different devices. If you do need to use POP due to any reason, you can use the following connection information:
• Incoming Mail Server Name: mail.comcast.net
• Incoming Mail Server Port Nu.mb.er: 995 (POP3 With SSL)
Please note that Incoming Mail Server Port Nu.mb.er 110 will no longer be su.pp.orted. If you wish to continue to use POP, please update your configurations to Port 995. To do so, find your email application's Settings or Preferences section on the device that you use to access your Comcast email account. Note that depending on your email application, port configurations may be located under advanced settings.
Important Prerequisite
1. Select File, and then Account Settings.
2. Select your Comcast email account, and then click Change
3. Confirm that the account type is POP, and then click More Settings.
4. Click the Advanced tab, and check the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox. Then, click OK.
Switching from POP3 to IMAP
1. Select File, and then Add Accounts.
2. In the Add Account window, enter your Comcast email address and password. Then, click Next.
3. By default, the account will be configured via IMAP, so simply click Finish.
Moving Emails from the POP to IMAP Profile
If the option to delete emails from the server was initially chosen during POP account configuration, emails would have been deleted from the mail server
as they were downloaded to the email client, so the newly configured IMAP account will not contain these emails.
To avoid losing these emails during the switch from POP to IMAP, you must select the emails contained in the various folders (inbox, sub folders,
trash or sent items) on your POP account, and drag and drop them into the respective folder within your newly configured IMAP account. To be safe,
you can also move and store these emails in an external folder.
To Setting up Comcast Email on Outlook 365
Step 1 – Double click the program icon on the computer's desktop or select “Program Files” under the “Start” sub-menu to open Outlook Express.
Step 2 – Select “Tools,” “Accounts,” “Add,” and “Mail” to run the Internet Connction Wizard if it does not start automatically.
Step 3 – Select the “Create a new Internet Mail Account” radio button if it is not already selected, then click “Next.”
Step 4 – Enter a name for the email account in the subsequently displayed menu-box and click “Next.”
Step 5 – Enter the full Comcast email address on the subsequently displayed screen then click “Next.”
Step 6 – Select “POP3” on the drop down menu now displayed and enter “mail.comcast.net” in the “Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, or HTTP) server” field. Enter “smtp.comcast.net” in the “Outgoing mail (SMTP) server,” then click “Next.”
Step 7 – Enter the email account name in the “Account name” field. The account name is the part of an email address prior to the “@” symbol. Enter the account password in the “Password” text field. Check “Remember password” so that the account automatically logs in when Outlook Express is opened. This option should not be checked if the user prefers to manually enter the password.
Step 8 – Click “Next” and “Finish” to complete setting up this phase of Comcast Email configuration.
Step 9 – Highlight the account just created in the “Internet Account” window and click “properties.”
Step 10 – Check “My server requires authentication” then click “Settings.”
Step 11 – Choose the “Use same settings as my incoming mail server” option in the “Outgoing mail server”-box, then click “OK.”
Step 12 – Click “Advanced” and change the “Outgoing Mail SMTP” port nmbr to 587, then click “OK” to complete email configuration.
How to Configure Outlook Settings for Comcast Email Xfinity.com
Step 1 – Open Outlook and choose “Tools.”
Step 2 – Select “Email Accounts” and “Add a new email account” then click “Next.”
Step 3 – Select “POP3” and click “Next.” Enter the information in the subsequently displayed menu to associate the name to be displayed when someone receives your email.
Step 4– Enter your Comcast email in the “Email Address”-box. Be sure to enter the entire email address, not just the information prior to the “@” symbol.
Step 5 – Enter “mail.comcast.net” in the “Incoming mail server” text field after choosing “POP3” from the drop-down menu.
Step 6 – Select “SMTP” for the “Outgoing mail server” type “smtp.comcast.net” in the associated text field and press enter.
Step 7 – Enter your account user name in the “User Name” field and password in the “Password” text field. In order for Outlook to remember the password, check “Remember Password.”
Step 8 – Click “Test Account Settings” to ensure that the configuration has been successful.
Step 9 – Choose “More Settings” then click “General.” Enter a descriptive name for your Comcast email account and then click “OK,” “Next,” and “Finish” to complete account configuration.
How to Setting up Windows Live Mail for Comcast
Step 1 – Open Windows Live Mail.
Step 2 – Choose “Tools” and “Accounts” then click “Add.”
Step 3 – Enter your Comcast email address and password along with the user name to be displayed or associated with email from this address.
Step 4 – Choose “POP3” on the subsequently displayed drop-down menu list and enter “mail.comcast.net” in the “Incoming Mail” text field.
Step 5 – Enter “995” in the port-box and select the “SSL” check-box.
Step 6 – Enter “smtp.comcast.net” in the “Outgoing mail” text field and select the check-box to use “SSL.” Enter “465” in the port text field and then click “next” to complete Comcast email configuration in Windows Live Mail.