greenie900
@comcast.net
| comcast email
hey i just dont undestand comcast email here. i cant send emails from these.sites gmail yahoo and hotmail . ive called at the customer service lines at comcast and the told me ? that i only have to use "comcast" email to send and rcvd. thats some thing else. with that can somebody ? tell me the " real truth here???? thanks.. |
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koshoka
join:2006-12-01
Pottsville, PA | Not exactly sure what your question is...but you're free to use whatever email you like. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| reply to greenie900
Yahoo is my main email service.
It works quite well using Comcast HSI.
I also have...
Comcast(obviously)
Hotmail
Lycos
NetZero
AOL
Walla
Gmail
All work fine with Comcast as the ISP.
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Think outside the Fox... Opera |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to greenie900
said by greenie900 :
hey i just dont undestand comcast email here. i cant send emails from these.sites gmail yahoo and hotmail ...
What happens when you try? Assuming you are accessing those services using web mail, the email will leave their servers, and will not traverse the Comcast network, unless another Comcast user is your recipient. Since you can apparently access those sites from Comcast, and even compose the email, it doesn't appear that you have a Comcast problem.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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Elliot
join:2009-06-22
Fort Lauderdale, FL
1 edit | reply to greenie900
greenie900 - what brower and operating system are you using. I use about 6 mail services (gmail, netzero etc.) with no problems with Win XP or Linux. Browsers - both IE and Firefox.
I will have to ask Dadkins about Opera (my fav, only Comcast.net doesn't seem to play well with it.) |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
1 edit | Opera 9.64 working fine with the new comcast.net. 
Doesn't seem to like email though. |
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Elliot
join:2009-06-22
Fort Lauderdale, FL
| Yes Dadkins I should have been more specific - I can login and get to billing etc. But click on email and all I get (in Opera) is a blue box telling me it's loading something - no internet activity, no email. I really like gmail so I don't really care all that much. |
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greenie900
@comcast.net
| that is what i heard from.. the customer svc reps when i called those people up, i tried to send e-mail from gmail and when i told this to the lady there.she said that i should contact.. gmail and hotmail people to check it out there. now wait a minute here..? i thoughT that i was getting all of these emails rcvd and sent out over comcast emails route , maybe ? im hearing something from them that i dont understand ?? maybe some one can ? fill me in on this from a comcast hsi representative.. tnx.. |
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snolsen
join:2004-01-10
Hanford, CA
| said by greenie900 :
that is what i heard from.. the customer svc reps when i called those people up, i tried to send e-mail from gmail and when i told this to the lady there.she said that i should contact.. gmail and hotmail people to check it out there. now wait a minute here..? i thoughT that i was getting all of these emails rcvd and sent out over comcast emails route , maybe ? im hearing something from them that i dont understand ?? maybe some one can ? fill me in on this from a comcast hsi representative.. tnx..
Your email from the other sites does not use Comcast POP/SMTP mail servers. Your mail comes/goes via the web. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to greenie900
said by greenie900 :
that is what i heard from.. the customer svc reps when i called those people up, i tried to send e-mail from gmail and when i told this to the lady there.she said that i should contact.. gmail and hotmail people to check it out there. now wait a minute here..? i thoughT that i was getting all of these emails rcvd and sent out over comcast emails route , maybe ? im hearing something from them that i dont understand ?? maybe some one can ? fill me in on this ...
Email is a "store and forward" delivery system. You, the end user, upload email to the service, then the service forwards the email to the destination.
When you use a web mail service, such as Gmail, or Hotmail, or Yahoo!, you access the email service via an HTTP link between your connection and the service. As a Comcast customer, that HTTP link is the only part of the email delivery which goes out through Comcast transit. And it is using the HTTP protocol to get to the email servers.
Once your email has been uploaded via the browser, the email service transfers the email from the web site to their SMTP servers. From there, it travels on their transit network (Gmail, Windows Live (Hotmail) and Yahoo! all have their own transit networks) to the domain gateway (MX) mail server of the recipient's email service.
So, if you can reach the web mail servers, and upload the email, the transit from Comcast to the service is working properly; there is nothing for Comcast to fix. If the email fails delivery from Gmail, or Hotmail, or Yahoo!, to the destination, the trouble is with the service (Gmail, or Hotmail, or Yahoo!), not with Comcast.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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