I check emails from my office, my android phone and my laptop. I am using pop3 with outlook and notice that Outlook must be up and running for me to get emails on my phone. I was recently advised that I could shut down outlook on the desktop and still get emails on the phone if I switched my Comcast email from pop3 to IMAP. I am a little nervous about trying this as the main comcast pages say to set up Outlook for POP3 and I only found info about IMAP by searching here on the forum. I found the link mentioned here (https://xcsignup.comcast.net/onboardingapps/imap but it doesn't give much info. If I complete the request for IMAP do I lose POP3? Permanently? Will I need to reconfigure Outlook to get IMAP or will both be active? I am going out of town and thinking I need to wait to make sure I don't break something and lose my office email for a week! I see that comcast tells me I am running XfinityConnect Full version. I have Vista on the Desktop and Windows 7 on the laptop and I use Touchdown to connect to my Comcast business exchange server with Outlook 10. I just enabled the built in email client on the Android phone and see that it picks up the 'residential' email until it is moved to Outlook (residential in quotes -- I use that email address as my main email address -- I need the exchange server to sync the calendar etc but I don't bother to use the business account address. Browser - usually Chrome -- sometimes sites insist on IE. Thanks -- Scott
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