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Monday, June 10th, 2024 1:15 AM

Beginning June 3, 2024, customers will not be able to create new Xfinity Email (comcast.net) accounts.

At the top of this webpage,  you’ll see the message in my subject line. This is kind of a big deal but I’ve been unable to find any further information about it or the rationale behind this decision. Can someone/anyone please explain what and why this is happening?

Official Employee

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7 months ago

Thank you for reaching out to us here @user_5p3tnc, and for your inquiry about that new policy. That was changed due to usage issues with the service. 

Contributor

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What exactly is going on here? When were we notified of this rather bizarre change? Please explain what "due to usage issues with the service" means!!!

Official Employee

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plummerld Due to low usage, the ability to create new Xfinity Email accounts (comcast.net) is no longer available. Meaning, the email feature is not being used enough by our customers and we are discontinuing it. For more information, you can visit us HERE

 

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Nice! Xfinity pointed us right back where the original poster pointed us! This is not a real explanation, I think Comcast/Xfinity does not want to be an email provider in the near future….

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[Edited: "Language"].  I use it extensively.  For medical, legal, foreign investment etcetc  I have no idea what to do.  And not nice of Comcast to let us know this was happening.

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You will continue to use your email as long as you keep logging into your email @user_u2kbli  using the Xfinity Email website or utilizing a third-party client at least once every 12 months. The link: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/email-activity is helpful in explaining the Xfinity Email activity policy

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6 months ago

Where do we go for email?

Official Employee

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user_6fce26 are you able to provide more details about your question? You can still use any other email account to set up a new Xfinity ID to sign into our website and apps. You can also still use existing comcast.net email accounts. Our webmail service just does not get used often enough to keep making new accounts. 

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5 months ago

If an employee leaves and their email is no longer needed, can you change their email address name to be used by a new employee? It's not adding any new ones and we're paying for 5 email addresses.

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Official Employee

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user_wrlzfl Good morning! Thank you for reaching out to our Community Forums Team. With there being changes to staff, I can see wanting to update the email contacts. In the future, we have our Comcast Business Support Community that is similar to this  one for asking questions that would be a good resource, https://forums.businesshelp.comcast.com/. You should be able to login to My Account, and update the Users there. You can also transfer Primary Manager Role there as well. Please give these steps a try and let us know if that works for you. 
 
 
-My Account
-Users
-Users Directory
-View Profile
-Edit User Information
 
 
 

 

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5 months ago

@user_wrlzfl 

Email is not a line item in your Comcast internet bill.  It is one of several services that Comcast considers as "extras" or perks.  Other such services have come and gone over time, like the calendar, the old "Community" discussion forums and others.  You might want to consider migrating your main email action to a provider not associated with an ISP, like Outlook.com, Gmail, Mail.com or others.

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5 months ago

I have not received any emails with my comcast.net since 6/18. I need to know why or how to fix

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5 months ago

@user_jrms57 

Have you tried sending an email to that account using some other email you have like Yahoo, Gmail or something else?  How are you accessing the email?

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24 days ago

My husband and I have having a lot of problems with Comcast email. We see “Checking for email…” for a long time and nothing loads. I deleted my email acct and added it back in but a lot of old messages never downloaded fully so all I have is a subject line and no content. Some days it appears to be working and the next day we can’t receive emails at all unless we go to xfinity.com. I talked to a Comcast rep and he had me doing things like turning wifi off then on, doing hard shutdowns of my ipad and then messages came in. He claimed it was a “wifi latency problem”. My router is a Comcast router. I think Comcast can’t handle the volume and is doing everything they can to discourage people from using Comcast email and driving them away. After having this email for 20-30 years I guess it is time to use another email. My gmail messages come in fine.

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@EsfromWEST Can you try going into your inbound and outbound settings to make sure they are correct? Here is an article with the correct settings: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/email-client-programs-with-xfinity-email. 

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24 days ago

@EsfromWEST 

Since you mentioned an iPad, are you using the Mail app that comes with iOS?  If so, disable the account in it, then try signing into the Comcast account just using Safari or some other browser, then see if you can access the email using only the webmail.  Does it work OK then?

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Yes it works fine using safari and going to the webmail on xfinity.com. I like the mail app because you see the little notifications telling you if you have mail without opening the app. My gmail email comes in through the mail app just fine. Also my emails come into my iphone thru the mail app just fine.

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