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I have been unable to receive emails on 1 of my 4 devices following a password change. The other devices are okay. The non working iPhone has a imap.comcast.net as the incoming mail server. The other devices all have mail.comcast.net as the server. The passwords appear to be different. 

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2 months ago

I have been unable to receive emails on 1 of my 4 devices following a password change. The other devices are okay. The non working iPhone has a imap.comcast.net as the incoming mail

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2 months ago

 

shelbyjean107 Hello and Good Morning! Thank you so much for using our Forums as a tool to get in contact with our Xfinity Support Team. We are here happy for the chance to assist you with your email issues on your device. Have you attempted to update the incoming mail server to have it reflect mail.comcast.net like the others? 

 

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2 months ago

Thanks for your reply. As I said in my email reply I’m afraid of messing up my working devices. All devices worked fine until a week ago. I think the solution requires someone knowledgeable about the plumbing of the Comcast network. 

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Another problem I have is that login.xfinity.com and idm.xfinity.com have different passwords. The login page now wants the idm page password for the sign in process the uses two factor authentication to provide access. I had to use it now to post these comments.

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You are in the right place and our team can help, we assure you. Can you just try changing the server on the device that is not working? The working devices we can leave as it and just focus the one with the issue. Please also try entering the new IDM password you created. We got your back and are here to help. 

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2 months ago

The failing device is my wife’s phone and she is not here now. I will try your suggestion when she returns. Thanks 

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Perfect! We will be here and let us know if that was successful.

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2 months ago

I changed the server to mail.comcast.net. I still don’t receive emails but I no longer receive an error message.

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Gotcha! Can you try sending a test email and letting us know if that worked? 

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2 months ago

Forgot to add, I did not change the password.😬

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2 months ago

Just tried again and now get error message “The mail server “mail.comcast.net” is not responding…..

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I just sent a test message.

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2 months ago

Received message “Cannot send mail..username or password …is incorrect “

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2 months ago

I don’t know if this is relevant but the user name on the failing account is my email address while the username on the accounts is just the portion of my email address in front of the @ symbol.

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shelbyjean107 I know that changing the password is not something you want to do to avoid affecting your working devices, but it seems like it may be the solution since your are receiving “Cannot send mail..username or password …is incorrect “.

 

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2 months ago

You want me to change the password on the failing account?

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2 months ago

XfinityChelseaB you have fixed my problem. Thank you very much. Thanks also to XfinityJorge for his help. Mailboxes now shows two Comcast accounts, the old one and the new one. Can I delete the old one?

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@shelbyjean107, Yay! I'm so happy that helped, and you got taken care of. Please feel free to let us know if you need help with anything else, we are always available, along with our wonderful community! 

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