10 Messages
Can't connect iphones nor Outlook
For the past several days I have been battling problems connecting to my comcast.net email account (Outlook and two iphones) I decided to try and tackle one issue at a time. I am trying to connect my iphone, which was fine until I changed my password (at Xfinity's request). This morning I changed my email password once again. I confirmed it worked by logging in via the Xfinity website.
I deleted the old account on my phone. I tried to install the account using the new password.
First screen - I entered name, email, password and the phone entered a default description, "comcast" and I hit "next".
The phone came back with "looking up account" then "verifying" then "the user name or password for mail.comcast.net is incorrect". I pressed "OK"
The phone displayed a screen. At the top POP was highlighted, three lines with name, email, and description filled in, then three lines under INCOMING MAIL SERVER which said
Host name: mail.comcast.net
Username: XXXX (the text to the left of my email address)
Password: I could only count the characters, it looked correct
Three lines under OUTGOING MAIL SERVER said
Host Name smtp.comcast.net
Username and password as above
I hit SAVE and I got a box saying "the user name or password for mail.comcast.net is incorrect" - I hit OK
I changed the highlighted box at the top from POP to IMAP and hit next ...I got back a box that says "comcast is currently unavailable"
I have done this multiple times and it never works and always comes out with the same errors. I am 100% sure I am connected to the internet. I am 100% sure I entered the password correctly.
Also, as I said earlier - I can't make Outlook work, nor can I get my other phone to work. All was working well until I changed my password on Jan 3
CCXanadu
Retired Employee
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300 Messages
2 years ago
Do you happen to have the Third Party Access Security box unchecked in your security settings? That would prevent any Third Party email clients from accessing your email.
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