How to Forward Your Comcast Mail to Gmail

Gmail is lauded as one of the best email programs, both because it offers an intuitive, feature-rich interface and because it affords users online access to their accounts. Gmail makes it easy to switch from another email service like Comcast or to use its application to read emails from your Comcast account by including a mail fetcher that can download your external emails into the Gmail interface. When linking your Comcast email to Gmail, you can choose to write and respond to emails using your Comcast email address. Linking your Comcast mail account to Gmail is an easy process, akin to setting up Comcast email with any POP retrieval program, and takes just a few minutes to accomplish.

Things You'll Need

• Gmail account
• Comcast email account

Instructions

1. Log in to your Gmail account.

2. Select "Settings."

3. Select the "Accounts and Import" tab.

4. Select "Import Mail and Contacts."

5. Enter your Comcast email address.

6. Enter the password for your Comcast email account.

7. Enter your Comcast user name (without the @comcast.net) and enter mail.comcast.net as the POP server.

8. Enter smtp.comcast.net as the SMTP server and change the port to 587.

9. Configure additional settings to your preferences. You will need to select either to leave messages on the server or delete them, label messages in Gmail, archive messages retrieved from your Comcast email and whether to use SSL.

10. Select "Add Account" once you have finished configuring your Comcast email fetch.

11. Select "Yes" to set up a custom from address so that you have the option of writing and responding to emails using your Comcast email address. A verification email will be sent by Gmail to your Comcast account with a number that you need to input to complete the process. Once you have entered the verification number, your Comcast email should be completely set up with Gmail.

References

• Google: Mail Fetcher
• Comcast Support: Setup Outlook Express for Email