<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Curtis,<div>Just a quick thank you for all the work you do in keeping everybody informed. It is so easy for people to think they're doing the right thing when they are not. Your email regarding Comcast and Outlook and the issues it creates are an excellent proof of this. Fortunately, for many of us like yourself who look a little deeper into these offers before jumping in head first, we were able to see the problems that signing up for something like yahoo could create. Then there are other problems that would not be foreseen such as the outlook issue. Once again, thank you for keeping people alert and for all the great work that you do.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size: 17pt;"> and best regards<br><br>Derek Selbo </span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 12, 2026, at 3:13\u202fPM, Curtis Chong via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Greetings everyone:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If your email address is not <a href="mailto:something@comcast.net">something@comcast.net</a>, feel free to disregard this email. However, if your email is being handled by Comcast and (more importantly) you use Microsoft Outlook to send and receive your Comcast email, then please pay heed to this email.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><h2>Background<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Starting in June, 2025, customers with a Comcast email address were being \u201cinvited\u201d to \u201cupgrade their email account to Yahoo Mail for a better email experience at no extra cost.\u201d (Parenthetically speaking, what this represents is a not-so-well-hidden attempt by Comcast to reduce the number of customers for whom it needs to handle email)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">According to the Xfinity page <a href="https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/yahoo-email-migration-overview">https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/yahoo-email-migration-overview</a>,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">\u201cYour comcast.net email address stays the same \u2014 and so do your messages, folders, and contacts.\u201d<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">According to information from <a href="https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/yahoo-email-migration-overview">https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/yahoo-email-migration-overview</a>,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">\u201cthis is an upgrade we are offering customers at no cost so they can access their email on a better platform with enhanced security, more features, and a mobile app for easy access on the go.\u201d<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><h2>The Problem<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have been working with individuals whose Comcast emails were (with their permission) transferred to Yahoo. While their emails are reasonably accessible using Yahoo\u2019s webmail interface, and while comcast.net emails handled by Yahoo are retrievable using the native iPhone Mail program, it has been virtually impossible to connect Microsoft Outlook to comcast.net emails that are processed by Yahoo email servers. I am working with the folks at Microsoft and Yahoo in an attempt to resolve this issue, but so far, I have not had any luck solving this problem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><h2>The Bottom Line<o:p></o:p></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you rely on Outlook to send and receive comcast.net emails, do not accept Comcast\u2019s \u201cinvitation\u201d to have your emails transferred (they say \u201cupgraded\u201d) to Yahoo!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yours sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Curtis Chong<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Colorado-Talk mailing list</span><br><span>Colorado-Talk@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/colorado-talk_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Colorado-Talk:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/colorado-talk_nfbnet.org/derek.selbo%40gmail.com</span><br><span>List archives can be found at <http://www.nfbnet.org/pipermail/colorado-talk_nfbnet.org></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>