How to Forward Email to a Comcast Email Address

It doesn't take long to run up a long list of email accounts. Many people have several separate email accounts to communicate with family, friends, people met online, coworkers and the junk mail email account used to sign up for services online. The problem with having so many different accounts is the amount of time it can take to check each account. You have to visit each account and enter the correct user name and password. You can save yourself a lot of time when you forward email to your Comcast email address. It only takes a few minutes to set up Comcast webmail to check other email accounts.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Collect the user name, password, incoming server and outgoing server information for each email account you want to check with Comcast webmail.

2. Go to Comcast.net and log in to your account by providing your user name and password (see Resources below).

3. Select the "Mailbox Manager" option on your screen by clicking the name or icon (a tiny mailbox).

4. Look for the "add mailbox" button on the right side of the screen and click it.

5. Decide if you are adding another Comcast account or an external account. Click the circle beside the type of account you want to add. If you are adding an additional Comcast email account, simply type the user name and password in their respective fields and click the "Save" button.

6. Choose the proper type of email system (POP3 or IMAP4) for the account you are adding. Almost all email accounts use POP3.

7. Enter the incoming email server you want to forward email from in the box next to "Email Server." For example, type in pop.mail.yahoo.com or mail.sitename.com.

8. Put the full email address of the account you want to forward to the Comcast account in the box beside "Email Address."

9. Provide the user name associated with the account you want to check in the box beside "User Name."

10. Add the password used with the other account in the box beside "Password."

11. Save your new email address to Comcast webmail by clicking the "Save" button.

12. Check to see if your newly created account is listed on the left side of the webpage under "My Mailboxes."

13. Add additional accounts to forward to your Comcast email as desired.

Tips & Warnings

• When you reply to an email forwarded to your Comcast email account, the Comcast email address will be sent to the person receiving your response. If you don't want to send your Comcast email address out, you must use the other email account to respond to the message.
• Remember to clean out the inbox of each email account you now forward to the Comcast email account to stay under the storage space limit.

Resources

• Official Comcast website