![]() Setting up a Comcast IMAP account in iOS 7 In either case, wait until you know for sure that your account is ready for IMAP love. One of two things will happen at this point: You'll either get a message that says that your account will be migrated to an IMAP server within 72 hours, or if you're a secondary email user on an account that's already asked to move to IMAP, you'll get a message saying that your account has been migrated. Please note that Comcast has not, to this point, made this ability to get an IMAP account widely known.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. For some odd reason, probably for provisioning of the IMAP server, they also ask you what state you're in (maybe it's just for validation that you are indeed who you say you are.). You will need to know your current account credentials, those being your account user name and password. Fortunately, there's no need to call Comcast you can make your request at (see image below). So to get on their "beta" IMAP service - which apparently has been around for a while - you need to ask for it. Should they decide sometime in the 21st Century to actually move everyone to IMAP, I'd be shocked. Request a Comcast IMAP accountīy default, you're still stuck with a Comcast POP3 account if you sign up for their service. Here are some instructions on what you other Comcastic customers can do to sign up for IMAP and set up your OS X and iOS devices (note that images and instructions below are written for OS X Mavericks and iOS 7). What I found is that you need to fool the Apple email clients for OS X and iOS 7 into believing that you're NOT connecting to a Comcast server initially, because if you tell those clients you have a Comcast account, they decide to set your email client up with - you guessed it - a POP3 account. After receiving notification that my IMAP account was live, I tried setting it up, only to run into issues. Well, I found out that they've been providing IMAP accounts on a ask-and-ye-shall-receive basis, so I quickly signed up for one. For some reason, Comcast seems to be stuck in the 1990s and wants to retain those stupid POP3 accounts. The only POP3 account that I still had as of last week was one from my ISP, Comcast. There are some other benefits to IMAP, but for most people, the constant need to make multiple deletions if they have more than one device is the main reason they detest POP3 email servers. What's the big difference between POP and IMAP? Well, if you're connected to a POP account and delete emails that have come into your Mac, when you get onto your iOS devices you'll find that those deleted emails are still there and you have to delete them again! With IMAP, delete once, and an email is deleted from all inboxes. Apple's email service uses the IMAP ( Internet Message Access Protocol) protocol for email, as do many other email services. One could become borderline dysfunctional at best.For years, POP ( Post Office Protocol) email has been a thorn in my side. It has gone on tooling and I have too many headaches trying to work through it. ![]() Wow!! That is why they are the wealthy ones and we sit back and accept this as though it is ok. WHO really knows? I would imagine it would be a great savings for Comcast if their customer base used an older provider i.e. This is not including cell phones, for which we have Verizon, thank God. It bothers me as a loyal credit worthy customer paying over 500. I hate to Make the change but with everything else moving ahead so quickly why does this remain a stagnant utterance to a massive Corporation where this should have been prioritized long long ago at inception. except through wireless server outside of Comcast which supplies all the basic cable tv, internet and phone services as well as security for our homes. Over a year and a half later would you believe the problem still exists, unresolved. ![]()
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