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Comcast email is moving to Yahoo

Your comcast.net address survives the move. From now on it runs on Yahoo, under Yahoo's terms, and the decision wasn't yours.

Updated September 2026

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Short answer

Comcast is moving every comcast.net mailbox to Yahoo Mail, in waves through 2026. You keep the address, your messages and your folders. You read your mail at Yahoo from then on, and your filters and forwarding rules don't come with you.

What changes

Xfinity started inviting customers in June 2025. Once you accept Yahoo's terms, according to Xfinity:

  • You can only read comcast.net mail through Yahoo Mail, on the web or in its app.
  • Filters and forwarding rules are not carried over. You set them up again.
  • Apple Mail, Outlook and other apps need their settings changed by hand.
  • Attachments over 25 MB don't transfer.
  • Contacts beyond 10,000 are deleted.

What stays the same

The address itself, your messages, folders and contacts. For most people the move goes fine. It's still a reminder that the address belongs to your internet provider, and the provider can hand it to someone else.

Internet providers are getting out of email

Comcast isn't the first. Verizon moved its customers' email to AOL in 2017, and Cox moved its customers to Yahoo in 2024. Running email costs providers money and earns them nothing, so the addresses get passed along to whoever will take them.

If you've had the same address for twenty years, this is the moment to decide whether you want it to depend on your internet bill.

An address nobody can move for you

An address on your own domain, like grace@smiths.family, doesn't belong to an internet provider or an email company. If you ever switch providers, you take the domain with you and the address keeps working. The next move is your choice.

It also works for the whole household. Everyone can have an address on the same family name, instead of each person tied to whichever company they signed up with years ago.

How to switch without losing anything

  • Get the new address first and keep the old one open. There's no rush to close it.
  • Move your old mail by adding both accounts to Apple Mail or Outlook and dragging the folders across.
  • Update the important senders: bank, doctor, school, pharmacy. Then the rest as mail arrives at the old address.
  • Check the old address once a week for a few months, until nothing new shows up there.

Want to see the options side by side? Read the comparison.

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