anything new on the supposed shutdown of comcast.net email?

[PhilBurton]

Operating system::    Windows 11
Outlook version:     Office 365
Email type or host:    IMAP

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Early this year, a Comcast support agent told me that comcast.net email service would be shut down sometime in 2025. Not much left of 2025 to do that, unless this shutdown will be on very short notice.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

I don't see them just shutting down - but they may no longer be issuing new comcast addresses. The eventually will hand it off to yahoo or aol.

 

[PhilBurton]

I don't see them just shutting down - but they may no longer be issuing new comcast addresses. The eventually will hand it off to yahoo or aol.

Agreed. I was unclear when I wrote post #1. I guess I should have asked about when Comcast email will be handed off to Yahoo (double-ugh) or AOL (~~~).

For me, this handoff recalls the famous lines from Dante's Inferno. "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." It's not just the need to find another mail server that preserves your privacy (I'm looking at you, Google). it's also the migration of who know how accounts that will need email addresses changed, for both me and my wife.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

I would get a custom domain name that way you are not at the mercy of google, Microsoft or comcast. you can host it where you want - should be under 50 a year total, for all the address you need.

But... if they do hand off to yahoo, it should be fairly seamless. The cox transfer last year shows they can do it.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I would get a custom domain name that way you are not at the mercy of google, Microsoft or comcast. you can host it where you want - should be under 50 a year total, for all the address you need.

But... if they do hand off to yahoo, it should be fairly seamless. The cox transfer last year shows they can do it.

If you do get a custom domain for use in emails, here's a tip from experience: Don't include a dash or any other punctuation mark in the domain name. I've run into several commercial sites that whose login screens refuse to recognize it as a valid address. That's even though the screen where I registered my account on that site accepted it.

 

[PhilBurton]

If you do get a custom domain for use in emails, here's a tip from experience: Don't include a dash or any other punctuation mark in the domain name. I've run into several commercial sites that whose login screens refuse to recognize it as a valid address. That's even though the screen where I registered my account on that site accepted it.

I just had another problem with Comcast email this week, where it was automatically flagging emails to me as SPAM. Created an issue with a forum I subscribe to.

I'm this close to giving Comcast the middle-finger-salute and switching to a custom domain. Aside from not having punctuation marks in the domain name, do you have any other suggestions? Recommended domain registrars? Hosting services?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Aside from not having punctuation marks in the domain name, do you have any other suggestions? Recommended domain registrars? Hosting services?

I've used ionos.com (formerly 1and1.com) for web hosting for 21 years, with no problems of any kind. Email accounts are included in the domain subscription. Ionos (based in Germany, but their local office is about 20 miles from my home in the USA) is also the registrar for my domains. It's neither the least nor the most expensive ISP, but they keep me happy.