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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 4:06 PM

Outgoing email error message

I'm getting this error message and i see from prior notes that it is a backend issue.  how do i get xfinity to fix? Error message:  The connection to remote server imap-east.ge.xfinity.com was refused or timed out while attempting to connect. Please try again later.

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2 days ago

Having the same issue on phone and desktop.  

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@Angie1679​  Salem problem

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Please help.  I do not know how to fix.

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2 days ago

Usually when LDAP fails to communicate on one side or a partial issue of sorts on the backend this happens. Not hard to fix. usually, it is restarting the LDAP service on the Linux backend. it is not a full failure as it still works on my phone's email client. and we can use webmail without issues. eventually a NOC person will get around to it. I worked with this stuff 10 years ago. I don't miss it. 

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Please ..I do not know how to fix.

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2 days ago

I'm having the same issue today as well.

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I also am have the same problem. Frustrating

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@user_ywc6qm​ Everything went down for a bit and came back up, so it looks like a directory reset may have done at least. Webmail and Phone still work, Outlook is crickets. 

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Still having issues so far

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@hc13​ 

Same problem

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@hc13​  Same problem

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2 days ago

I'm having the same problem, off and on all day. Either at home or work, doesn't matter browser either - Firefox or Chrome. I can't reply to e-mails I've been sent nor can I compose an e-mail. When going to other folders like Spam, Trash or Saved, sometimes they are blank or I have to double click on Saved items to see them because some come up empty and I have a lot of Saved items. Didn't want to bother calling Comcast up as I'm usually stuck for an hour waiting for someone. I'm hoping they're looking into this and it's fixed by tomorrow. I had to use my Yahoo e-mail to respond to several friends. Ugh!

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@user_644638​  Same problem

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2 days ago

Cannot respond to comcast emails...

"server imap-east.ge.xfinity.com was refused or timed out while attempting to connect."

So frustrating.  Who to contact and where to start.

Please help.

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2 days ago

Yes, same problem here.  I see that this issue came up last year and a team from Xfinity had to fix it.  I'm on Chat with a Live Agent (multiple agents have popped on and then shuffled me to the next agent) so let's see what they say.

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2 days ago

It looks like xfinity’s team responded to 

“Unable to connect to mail server”

forum. They said they have their engineering team working on the issue and this was about an hour ago. 

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Thanks.  Seems to have worked.  I'm not having any issues today.

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3 hours ago

I'm having this issue today.  Frustrating!

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3 hours ago

Hey there, @user_7a0nz7! Thank you so much for taking the time to reach out to us here on the Xfinity Forums. I am sorry to hear about the troubles with the email, but happy to see that you reported you are not having further troubles. Please let us know if you have any other questions/concerns, we are happy to help! 

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2 hours ago

I'm having the same issue. Do we each have to reach out to Xfinity or is Xfinity working on the issue overall?

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2 hours ago

Error

The connection to remote server imap-east.ge.xfinity.com was refused or timed out while attempting to connect. Please try again later.
I have been getting this message on and off for the last two days. Any idea on the time to get it fixed?

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@user_zqnm4w​  Same here. 

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11 minutes ago

Very strange.  I spoke to multiple Xfinity support people via live chat on Tuesday night and it seemed like they got it fixed.  No error messages on Wednesday.  Today, Thursday, I'm getting the error message again.  Grrrrr.

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