If I leave Comcast, how can I keep my Comcast email address? without paying through my nose?

[philb2]

There have been many times over the years when i have just been royally p-o'ed at Comcast, but the thought of changing my email address really scares me. If I switched ISPs, can I keep my comcast email address? How?

 

[GotNoRice]

According to Comcast, you should be able to keep using it as long as you access it at least once every 9 months. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/using-email-only That actually seems surprisingly generous of them. I would still get something like a Gmail address and start switching as much stuff over as possible.

 

[uOpt]

Yeah. Pull the band-aid and change rather sooner than later.

 

[pendragon1]

seems surprisingly generous of them.

big time. ive seen leeway time for transfers but never just "use it once every 90 days and you keep it indefinitely" before...

 

[Stugots]

I've never actively used a ISP provided email service. There are way too many options for better email services.

 

[learners permit]

I've kept my comcast email for 5 years after my switch to century link fiber with no issues.

 

[hity645]

I've never actively used a ISP provided email service. There are way too many options for better email services.

I'm suspicious of people who use their ISP email address.

 

[EmerilLIVE]

I'm suspicious of people who use their ISP email address.

Some internet forums used to require a "real" e-mail address to register, i.e. no yahoo, gmail, hotmail, other free email services were allowed. You were expected to use your ISP email as a deterrent to kids, trolls, & multi-accounting. Also when Facebook started it was only open to university email addresses.

 

[philb2]

I've never actively used a ISP provided email service. There are way too many options for better email services.

Perhaps true now, but not way back when I signed up with Comcast.

 

[philb2]

According to Comcast, you should be able to keep using it as long as you access it at least once every 9 months. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/using-email-only That actually seems surprisingly generous of them. I would still get something like a Gmail address and start switching as much stuff over as possible.

Nice answer about Comcast.

Gmail is one big festering privacy sore, as are all the rest of the "free" services offered by Google. Hard to know if Google or Facebook is the worst privacy bad actor. Both are pretty terrible.

 

[Westwood]

I lost my address, and I needed it back because it was a default to get a password from a site I used a LONG time ago.

Called Comcast and they reinitiated my old email. However, it wiped out all my emails. But, I reset my password and logged right in.