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Authentication: Type in your Comcast username and passwordĪs mentioned we triple checked the settings above and tried several encryption options as the error message suggested but there was no luck.

Outgoing Mail Server Port Number: 587 (SMTP).

Incoming Mail Server Port Number: 993 with SSL ON.

When your program asks you to set up your email, use these settings to connect your Comcast email: Here are the instructions below in a nutshell. You can find the official Xfinity settings for email on the Comcast website. We of course triple checked our mail server settings in Microsoft Outlook. We saw a few variations of this but generally it was some kind of encryption type error. Here is another example of the outbound email failure What We Tried to Fix the Outbound Email Problem The message box we received in Outlook looks something like this The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) timed out.

The message received upon delivery to Comcast Xfinity servers was something like: This is a bit odd because most times email in both directions is often impacted. Once we disconnected they would send an email a few hours later and the outbound email would fail. Even worse, every time we connected to their PC we would send a test email and it worked almost every time. The issue was a user who was struggling to use Microsoft Outlook (version 2019 in this case) to send email via and was getting intermittent errors connecting to the server for outbound email. Unable to Send Email with Microsoft Outlook So we thought we would write a blog post in hopes of helping someone out. We saw countless articles that were also to diagnose the same issue but very little info on how to solve the problem. We recently ran into an issue that was EXTREMELY difficult to diagnose. We of course use Google religiously to look up additional info if we don’t know the answers off the top of our head. Some are simple virus removal and some are complex technical problems that take several hours to diagnose and fix. At Boxaid we see countless technical problems every day.