Confused about passwords to use when Comcast emails are "migrated" to Yahoo

XfinityJohn, your answer has NOTHING to do with my questions. Please look at the links and at the questions and don't just waste your time and my time. if Comcast is getting rid of us, if nothing else, it should provide adequate help to migrate us over. This is not "assistance".

Once the new strong password is created that would be for your Comcast email under the new Yahoo format. If you were to log into any third-party mail applications like Outlook, Mail for Apple, or Mail for Android that would be the password you would use to log your Comcast email into those apps. Please let me know if this helps. 

Thanks, this sounds much better. I will repeat what I understand from you.

1. The new strong password I am instructed to create will be used to login into my "Comcast email under the new Yahoo format" after the migration to Yahoo was executed. I will no longer use my present password for the Comcast account, it will be replaced by this new strong password that I have to create. I will have to create a new strong password to access "Comcast email under the new Yahoo format" for each email account now I have with Comcast.

2. Until now, when I setup Apple mail on my Mac, when I was asked to enter the password for the email account setup with Comcast, I did enter the same password that I entered for webmail in Comcast. After the migration, when I will setup the Yahoo account in Apple mail, I will have to use the new strong password I created (as described above). 

3. I do not have to generate and use a one time 3rd party app password; no need for it in order to continue getting my emails in Apple mail for all my Comcast email addresses as until now.

Please confirm that the above is correct. Thanks.

Hey there that all does sound correct. The new strong password you create will take the place of the one you have been using, and you will use that when logging into your Comcast email at Yahoo, or on the Apps where you currently view your email.  You should not need a one-time password because the strong password would be the password you would use to set up your email again once migration has been successfully completed. Please let me know if this helps, and again we are here and happy to help if you have additional questions, or concerns. 😀

Thanks. I will follow your instructions and hope that they will work. If not, I hope to get the needed help.

Unrelated topic: why I am not notified that a reply or a comment was posted?

In the context of your replies XfinityAngie, the prior answers provided by XfinityJon are incorrect ("The new strong password you create will take the place of the one you have been using, and you will use that when logging into your Comcast email at Yahoo, or on the Apps where you currently view your email.  You should not need a one-time password because the strong password would be the password you would use to set up your email again once migration has been successfully completed.").

Sorry, but not only the instructions that were provided are confusing, but also the answers one gets from those who are supposed to be experts and know it all are confusing. How do I know who is right or wrong who knows what they are talking about and who doesn't?

I like to think I am computer savvy, but In still don't know what to do.  All I care about is to be 

able to access my Apple mail app. I almost never login to comcast to read my mail.

When I went through the migration, it did not prompt me for any one-time password. I clicked on the migration invitation in my Comcast email, and it guided me through the steps. i did have to create a new password under the Yahoo format, but was able to use the same password which I had been using all along. I just had to enter it under the Yahoo settings when moving over. When it came to setting up my Mail on my iPhone, you select Yahoo for your mail carrier instead of Other like we used to have to do. And you use the Password you provide when setting up the Yahoo account. Please let me know if this helps. 

It is INCREDIBLY annoying to see how these different support people just start writing without bothering to read what another support staff already stated and the prior conversation. They just waste time. How about reading and answering questions? Without that THIS IS NOT AT ALL THE "PERFECT PLACE" TO GET HELP FOR THE YAHOO MAIL MIGRATION.

XfinityEmily, read the prior conversation before you joined, contradicting answers from your colleagues Jon and Angie, and provide clarification about which password has to be used where when setting up Apple mail for Yahoo. Correct answers instead of slogans would be helpful for me, tbill1 and many others.

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