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gsm
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2015-Jan-26 4:31 pm
[E-mail] comast imap woesIs there any way of switching back to pop instead of imap. I redid my pc recently and notice that Comcast switched at some point to imap and its been giving me a lot of problems with speed in outlook. I also tried manually changed from imap.comcast.net to mail.comcast.net and it worked on my outlook but I cant switch it back on my iphone it wont verify for some reason. |
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Robyn79 Premium Member join:2014-12-09 |
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2015-Jan-26 4:53 pm
I don't know about any changes. I haven't made any in ages - and Comcast hasn't either best I know.
In any event - I am using Outlook Express (similar to Outlook but obsolete). Incoming mail server is POP3 - mail.comcast.net set at 995. Outgoing is SMTP - smtp.comcast.net set at 465. There is no secure password necessary (box unchecked) but "requires authentication" box is checked. Don't know if these settings will work on an iPhone. Robyn |
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gsm
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2015-Jan-26 11:04 pm
I managed to get my pc working with mail.comcast.net but for some reason my new iPhone keeps defaulting to imap and I cant get it to change back |
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NormanSI gave her time to steal my mind away MVM join:2001-02-14 San Jose, CA TP-Link TD-8616 Asus RT-AC66U B1 Netgear FR114P
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I have no clue if this would even work with an iPhone; but it would work with Mozilla Thunderbird on a PC. Delete the email account from the iPhone app. Since it is IMAP, your email should be safe, but you should probably back it up to be safe.
I am not saying to change the account with Comcast, only remove it on the device.
Then add it back; paying attention to choose POP3 during set up. |
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Hi, What kind of issues are you seeing with IMAP? While we support POP and will continue to, we are encouraging customers to take advantage of IMAP, which was recently rolled out to all our customers. It offers better synchronization across devices than POP can. Let me know what issue you're seeing and I'll see how we can fix it for you.
Thanks. |
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scelli (banned)Four More Years! join:1999-08-07 FLOT/FEBA |
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2015-Jan-27 12:47 pm
said by Jordan_Ro: It offers better synchronization across devices than POP can. Can you or someone here provide a link to an FAQ written in plain English either from Comcast or another reliable source as to differences between the two protocols as well as advantages/disadvantages of each? Right now, I use POP with Thunderbird on my three home PC's and see no reason to switch. Just FYI: I have 2 of those PC's set to keep any messages viewed with them on the server. My main box is the unit I use to keep and/or archive messages. Once downloaded to it, those messages are then cleared from the server. TIA! |
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Basically, IMAP is a bit like having a master copy on Comcast. Your devices access that and also have local copies. Any changes made on one are synchronized across the master copy and the others.
With POP3, there is effectively only one copy. If you use multiple devices, it can be very confusing. Most POP default to deleting from the main server after downloading. You can turn that off, but deleting a mail from your local copy will NOT automatically delete it form the original server.
Basically, IMAP is best if you want mail accessible from multiples devices. POP3 is best for just a single mail device. |
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scelli (banned)Four More Years! join:1999-08-07 FLOT/FEBA |
scelli (banned)
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2015-Jan-27 1:14 pm
Excellent! Thanks to both of you for clarifying the protocols for me. I suspect that, at least for now, POP is the way to go for me as I don't own (and probably will never own) a plethora of devices for checking e-mail. |
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said by scelli:Excellent! Thanks to both of you for clarifying the protocols for me. I suspect that, at least for now, POP is the way to go for me as I don't own (and probably will never own) a plethora of devices for checking e-mail. But you earlier wrote "Right now, I use POP with Thunderbird on my three home PC's..." That is exactly the kind of thing IMAP addresses. You read/see the same email content, folders, etc. on every device, all the time. POP3 is archaic, clumsy and going the way of the Dodo. On the DigitalOcean droplet I fired-up the other day, I didn't even bother installing the POP3 server component. Next mail server iteration here at work: POP3 will be eliminated. Dunno as I'd trust servers run by Comcast, but that's another story... Jim |
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2015-Jan-27 3:29 pm
said by jseymour:Dunno as I'd trust servers run by Comcast, but that's another story... It's not Comcast servers you have to worry about; I suspect that they have a reasonable backup implementation should a server crash. OTOH, if some bean counter or CSR at Comcast screws up your account, then the archived email on their IMAP servers may simply disappear. If you use POP3 and archive your email locally, you have yourself to blame if you screw something up and lose your archived email (and easy to use backup devices are relatively cheap). |
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said by jseymour:You read/see the same email content, folders, etc. on every device, all the time. Which is exactly the way I want it for reasons I'm not going to expound on here. If I check e-mail on one or both my satellite boxes, I want them to remain on the mail server so I have the ability to download those very same messages on my "production" box. Then I can choose to keep any or all locally, but now they've been removed off Comcast's server because of the POP settings in Thunderbird on that production box. |
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said by NetFixer:If you use POP3 and archive your email locally, you have yourself to blame if you screw something up and lose your archived email (and easy to use backup devices are relatively cheap). Bullseye!!! Give the man a cigar and a bolo badge! |
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