Or maybe it's not K-9.... I just tried checking email on Comcast's Website, and got this message:
Error: Failed to load message content The connection to remote server imap.email.comcast.net timed out while awaiting the response. Please try again later. Something similar happened in the Comcast app on my phone. So possibly I simply tried to set up K-9 at the exact moment Comcast is having an email outage. I see other reports of such an outage online. I'll report back in later. PS. I'll try to remember this the next time I gripe about the U.S. Post Office. :-) On Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 6:12:08 PM UTC-5, DavidR wrote: > > I've heard great things about K-9 Mail for years, and finally decided to > try it instead of the stock Email app. I have a Samsung Note 8 running > Android 7.1.1. I have a Comcast email account that I'm trying to set up. I > let K-9 set up the account automatically. When I tried to check messages, I > went to the Inbox screen and it showed "Loading messages..." for 5 minutes > or so, with the circle going around and around, but nothing ever came > through. I had it set to check 2 weeks of messages, and there should be > plenty. If I tap Check mail from the Accounts list page (I only have the > Comcast account set up), nothing happens at all. It does say 104.4KB as the > size, but that doesn't seem to mean anything. I uninstalled the app and > reinstalled it, with the same result. Connectivity is not the issue; I'm > sitting next to my WiFi router. > > I checked the incoming server settings, and did find something unexpected. > First of all, I thought that it would use POP3, but it used IMAP. I checked > the Comcast Website, and it seems that IMAP is now the only option. K-9 had > configured the incoming server as imap.comcast.net, but on the Comcast > Website it is listed as imap.email.comcast.net. I changed that in the > Incoming server settings, but still nothing downloads. > > I also tried sending a test email, and that did work. I sent it to my > Gmail account (which I don't have set up on K-9), and in Gmail I replied to > it, i.e., to the Comcast account. K-9 does not download that reply either. > > Help, please. Or should I just give up on K-9 and look for something > simpler? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
