Comcast vs. Outlook: I have used Outlook for years as my email provider. Comcast is my internet carrier and the two were synced so that Comcast.net emails showed up in Outlook and...

bobforman Loc: Anacortes, Washington State

I have used Outlook for years as my email provider. Comcast is my internet carrier and the two were synced so that Comcast.net emails showed up in Outlook and everything was just ducky. About a week ago, without any action on my part, Outlook stopped downloading emails except between the hours of about 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM. I've tried both Imap and Mail setting, none of which help.

Any of you tech gurus have any ideas? A Google search offers solutions but none work.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

bobforman wrote:

I have used Outlook for years as my email provider. Comcast is my internet carrier and the two were synced so that Comcast.net emails showed up in Outlook and everything was just ducky. About a week ago, without any action on my part, Outlook stopped downloading emails except between the hours of about 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM. I've tried both Imap and Mail setting, none of which help.

Any of you tech gurus have any ideas? A Google search offers solutions but none work.

Outlook is Microsoft's email client application. Comcast is your Internet Service Provider. These are entirely different entities. The former is a piece of software, while the latter is a giant company.

You might want to use Speed Test to check your Internet connection. You might want to check your Outlook settings and preferences, to be sure they are set for the frequency of downloads you want.

If you're on a Mac, try configuring Apple Mail. I have Outlook, but it is a resource hog and a lot more complex than it needs to be for home use. I haven't used it since leaving the corporate arena. There, I used it on MacOS and Windows.

If your ISP has "webmail" (a web page where you can log onto your account and get your email), try that.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

bobforman wrote:

I have used Outlook for years as my email provider. Comcast is my internet carrier and the two were synced so that Comcast.net emails showed up in Outlook and everything was just ducky. About a week ago, without any action on my part, Outlook stopped downloading emails except between the hours of about 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM. I've tried both Imap and Mail setting, none of which help.

Any of you tech gurus have any ideas? A Google search offers solutions but none work.

The first time I had that problem I just started the habit of manually giving Outlook (I use the Outlook e-mail app in Office) a command to download and send when I open it.

What bugs me is that I have had e-mails dated as much as 2 days old pop up, where the he** have those messages been for two days??? And if I go direct to each e-mail account I have (that includes the Web Mail of Comcast/Time Warner or whoever they are today.) and had the same thing happen, e-mails that are days old popup for the first time.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

FYI- Outlook is your email client and Comcast is your email provider.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Longshadow wrote:

FYI- Outlook is your email client and Comcast is your email provider.

I know that, Comcast is ONE of my e-mail providers, I have five active e-mails and in the past I had two others through the Los Angeles Unified School District before I retired and stopped using them.

I check multiple times per day just because and also because a few sites I visit regularly have gone over to having to get a one time code via e-mail or text for extra security.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

robertjerl wrote:

I know that, Comcast is ONE of my e-mail providers, I have five active e-mails and in the past I had two others through the Los Angeles Unified School District before I retired and stopped using them.

I check multiple times per day just because and also because a few sites I visit regularly have gone over to having to get a one time code via e-mail or text for extra security.

I was telling BobForman, not you.

(Yea, my hosting company is another one of MY providers;
Thunderbird is another one of my email clients.)

A post after yours is not necessarily a reply to yours. Your post happened to be posted prior to mine. When I started there were no subsequent posts yet, as you did. We started a reply about the same time and you happened to hit send before I did as did BurkPhoto. I use quote reply if I'm replying to someone's post other than the OP.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Longshadow wrote:

I was telling BobForman, not you. img src="https:... (show quote)

That is why they invented "quote reply", I learned to use it a couple of days after I joined UHH.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

robertjerl wrote:

That is why they invented "quote reply", I learned to use it a couple of days after I joined UHH.

That's why I didn't use it. Replying to the OP, not you.

ddetloff Loc: Fair Haven, MI

Longshadow wrote:

That's why I didn't use it. Replying to the OP, not you.

That's why you select "Quote Reply" on the post you are actually replying to, whether it's the very first post or somewhere in the middle.

tcthome Loc: NJ

robertjerl wrote:

The first time I had that problem I just started t... (show quote)

I have had that happen with text & voicemails on the cell phone also. I know, not email but... Lost in space. If truly important, exchange phone calls & send a fax,.,. I guess.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

ddetloff wrote:

That's why you select "Quote Reply" on the post you are actually replying to, whether it's the very first post or somewhere in the middle.

I may on a many page thread, but it's typically understood as a reply to the OP unless otherwise quoted.
Or if I make a comment made "in general", to no one in particular, no one to quote.

That may be why you select Quote Reply.
I just explained why I don't.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Longshadow wrote:

That's why I didn't use it. Replying to the OP, not you.

But several people had posted and had comments/replies to their posts since the OP so "quote reply" would still make things easier to keep track of.

Unless it is a general comment not aimed at any particular post or poster I always use "quote reply". It prevents guessing games as to what I am commenting on.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

robertjerl wrote:

But several people had posted and had comments/replies to their posts since the OP so "quote reply" would still make things easier to keep track of.

Unless it is a general comment not aimed at any particular post or poster I always use "quote reply". It prevents guessing games as to what I am commenting on.

For some. Unless there is an "understood" base.

How about you reply the way you want and I reply the way I want.
or am I doing it worng.

You must love it when people just post

;
You have NO idea for what/who they're posting that.
The previous comment or what...

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Longshadow wrote:

For some. Unless there is an "understood"... (show quote)

To each his own but yes according to my Southern* upbringing it is wrong/impolite not to reply or acknowledge and I seem to remember from the year I lived in York (8th grade in the late 50's) and on visits to my Mom's family in Houtzdale it was pretty much the same.

*Raised in the South/Border State (far Western Kentucky) in the 50's & 60's we might have been just a touch too much on the polite at times. If we were going to murder you we would do it politely, throw in "Bless your little heart." a few times and even send flowers to the funeral. At school we had our fights politely with hand shakes and "Tell your folks I said Hi." afterwards. Well if we didn't - the teachers and Principal would make us, or else. I don't know anyone who ever went so far as to learn what "or else" meant. Not when we believed those really old fashioned Southern Teachers could call down the wrath of God on us with just a short prayer and a "Look!".

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

robertjerl wrote:

To each his own but yes according to my Southern* ... (show quote)

Hahaha - The North and the South are at it again I suppose.....

(But I did spend 27 years in Central Florida.)

Y'all have a nice day now, y'hear?