http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22652454 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:18:31 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:18:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22657338 said by greenie900 :

that is what i heard from.. the customer svc reps when i called those people up, i tried to send e-mail from gmail and when i told this to the lady there.she said that i should contact.. gmail and hotmail people to check it out there. now wait a minute here..? i thoughT that i was getting all of these emails rcvd and sent out over comcast emails route , maybe ? im hearing something from them that i dont understand ?? maybe some one can ? fill me in on this ...
Email is a "store and forward" delivery system. You, the end user, upload email to the service, then the service forwards the email to the destination.

When you use a web mail service, such as Gmail, or Hotmail, or Yahoo!, you access the email service via an HTTP link between your connection and the service. As a Comcast customer, that HTTP link is the only part of the email delivery which goes out through Comcast transit. And it is using the HTTP protocol to get to the email servers.

Once your email has been uploaded via the browser, the email service transfers the email from the web site to their SMTP servers. From there, it travels on their transit network (Gmail, Windows Live (Hotmail) and Yahoo! all have their own transit networks) to the domain gateway (MX) mail server of the recipient's email service.

So, if you can reach the web mail servers, and upload the email, the transit from Comcast to the service is working properly; there is nothing for Comcast to fix. If the email fails delivery from Gmail, or Hotmail, or Yahoo!, to the destination, the trouble is with the service (Gmail, or Hotmail, or Yahoo!), not with Comcast.
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that is what i heard from.. the customer svc reps when i called those people up, i tried to send e-mail from gmail and when i told this to the lady there.she said that i should contact.. gmail and hotmail people to check it out there. now wait a minute here..? i thoughT that i was getting all of these emails rcvd and sent out over comcast emails route , maybe ? im hearing something from them that i dont understand ?? maybe some one can ? fill me in on this from a comcast hsi representative.. tnx..
Your email from the other sites does not use Comcast POP/SMTP mail servers. Your mail comes/goes via the web. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22656992 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:47:52 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22655629 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22655629 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:34:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22654696 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22654696 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:54:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22654602 Doesn't seem to like email though.

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I will have to ask Dadkins about Opera (my fav, only Comcast.net doesn't seem to play well with it.)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22654533 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:03:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22652753 said by greenie900 :

hey i just dont undestand comcast email here. i cant send emails from these.sites gmail yahoo and hotmail ...
What happens when you try? Assuming you are accessing those services using web mail, the email will leave their servers, and will not traverse the Comcast network, unless another Comcast user is your recipient. Since you can apparently access those sites from Comcast, and even compose the email, it doesn't appear that you have a Comcast problem.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22652753 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:36:57 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22652524 It works quite well using Comcast HSI.
I also have...
Comcast(obviously)
Hotmail
Lycos
NetZero
AOL
Walla
Gmail

All work fine with Comcast as the ISP.
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Think outside the Fox... Opera]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22652524 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:47:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22652511 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-comcast-email-22652511 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:41:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/comcast-email-22652454 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/comcast-email-22652454 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:19:30 EDT