Comcast is Shutting Down Its Email Service & Moving Customer Email Accounts to Yahoo Mail
By Luke Bouma on August 2, 2025
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In a significant change, Comcast has announced plans to transition all Comcast.net email accounts from its current Xfinity Email platform to the Yahoo Mail platform. The announcement, detailed in an email sent to customers on August 2, 2025, outlines a phased migration set to occur over the next several months, promising improved functionality and advanced features for its users.
According to the email from Comcast, the shift to Yahoo Mail will provide customers with a “premium email solution” designed to streamline communication and organization. Yahoo Mail’s AI-driven inbox management, robust security features, integrated calendar, and highly rated mobile app were highlighted as key benefits of the transition. Importantly, Comcast assured customers that their existing Comcast.net email addresses, along with all messages, folders, and contacts, will remain intact during the move.
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FYI Yahoo is primarily owned by Apollo Global Management, which holds a 90% stake, while Verizon retains a 10% ownership. The company operates as a standalone entity under the name Yahoo! Inc. Apollo Global Management is a private equity firm that bought AOL and Yahoo from Verizon.
Way back when I was first reinkefj@att.net and later when I became reinkefj@comcast.net (Are you detecting a pattern here?). I advise family, frends, and basically anyone who would listen that this “free” email was a lock-in so you could never change ISPs. A quick scan of the Reinke Faces Life blog will show you my griping back in 2010.
May I suggest that you have your own domain? The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!)
It gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions: wordpressdotcom with gmail, email only with 1and1, and domain+email+webspace also at 1and1.
My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy.
And, it’s not aol, hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”. And, the “bad guys” can’t fool you!
P.S.: 1and1 is now IONOS.
Let’s look over the Google Graveyard for all the vendors who have passed away with our data.
- Google Graveyard: Google groups, Google Short Links;
- Yahoo took down: Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009 and Yahoo! Groups before that;
- AT&T ASHcan contains: AT&T Locker, AT&T Photos, and AT&T.net email;
- Amazon “Sunseted”: Dash and other buttons, and the Amazon product wand;
- Mozilla did the old Pocket-punt;
- Microsoft wants you to forget HealthVault and Docs.com file-sharing;
- CARDSCAN was acquired by Rubber Maid and went down shortly after that;
- And FINALLY Plaxo, the cardscan replacement, that also disappeared.
Never mind all the hardware devices that were given the heave ho after being bought by suckers like me.
Soooooo, under the heading of “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!”, I’d urge you to take firm control of your choices. If your data goes in, then ask how does it come out?” If the answer is not obvious, then tread carefully the data you save may be your own.
Argh!
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