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Accessing mail while @ work

I set my mail box up at home using my comcast email account. It works fine when I am at home. But, when I am work I get a message saying Cannot Get Mail, The conntection to the server "mail.comcast.net" failed. How can I get this to work while I am at work?

Dell Inspiron, Windows XP

Posted on Jul 3, 2007 6:13 AM

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Posted on Jul 3, 2007 6:18 AM

Dberrier,

Are you using EDGE or Wi-Fi at work?

If you are using Wi-Fi you will be behind your employer's firewall, and be affected by any limitations they have put on their network.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.
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Jul 5, 2007 3:48 PM in response to Dberrier

I had problems sending email with EDGE on comcast this morning using imported settings from my outlook.

Now I have comcast email working without problem on both EDGE and Wifi. Whether this is because comcast is working better or my iphone is correctly configured I do not know. But here are my settings:

Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: mail.comcast.net
User Name: xxxxxxxx (fill in with yours)
Password: ******** (fill in with yours)

Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
Host Name: smtp.comcast.net
User Name: xxxxxxxxxx (fill this in with your username)
Password: *********** (fill this in with your password)

Under advanced Settings
Incoming Uses SSL: ON
Outgoing Uses SSL: OFF (works either way)
Delete from server: Never

I hope this works for you. I was able to send a photo from my iphone to my work email. Tried it twice and no problems.



Glenn

Accessing mail while @ work

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