Finally Sprint rep got my email working ( comcast & gmail )

I had similar problems with email, sometimes it worked sometimes it did not and restarting the phone let me access my comcast mail at least once without problem, but who soon after start having problems. Same for my gmail email too.

I don't know if this will work for everyone but I was at the sprint store a few days ago getting a travel charger for the phone and I noticed the sprint sales rep had a instinct and told him about my email problem. He said yeah like 7 out of 10 instinct owners are bringing there phone in because of this.

He said just pop the battery out, put it back in, start phone and your readly to go. I thought this would be yet another BS fix. So ( I did not shut the phone off first ) I popped my battery out and restarted the phone. Now for 3 days and probably 100 plus emails later not a single problem. Once in a while it's a little slow, maybe 7-10 seconds to cycle through the send/recieve process. Don't know why popping the battery out would do anything but it worked for me.

So if you are sure you have your email settings right tried what i did. I hope it works and sorry if this has been posted. I've seen to many threads on to many forums about the email in the last week to keep track.


Also Nice board to whoever owns it. Only one I signed up on.


Also Comcast users make sure you look up how to config the instincts settings. The defualt settings for Other POP do not work.

Good luck and hope this helps to anyone still having problems.

I am also trying to figure this out as well but have not had any luck.  I am not certain as to what settings should be checked?  If you figure it out, please let me know!

Thanks

Thanks so much Kuroshio.  Those instructions were great for this "instinct dummy"!!!  lol. That did the trick.  I am all set up!

Does anyone know what the outgoing smtp port server would be for a road runner account. I can recieve mail just fine, but I can not send any mail.

Thanks

It is not working for me. I did what the instructions said.

Ok I figured out how to get my Comcast Email working. Its a cheap way around it, but it still works. Ok basically what I did was forward my comcast email to my g-mail account. Once I did that I now setup a Pop account, and put in the settings under what gmail said to use and Walla! I get my comcast email forwarded to my gmail account but Im still sending and receiving comcast email. As far as the setup of a Pop account for a Comcast Account, my port settings are a little different because Im using the Smartzone. Im a beta tester so the pop settings are: sz-pop.mail.comcast.net, my smtp settings are the same, changed the outgoing port to 587, but whenever I went to finish I got that S7122 error. Im sure it has something to do with with way the pop settings are setup.

Anyways, I hope this can maybe help some of you all who are stuck out there.

Hello Hutch8729....

Worked like a charm !!!

I have three Comcast account and all three are receiving/sending without any problems!!!

I had the same problem, receiving but not sending. So I DELETED all of them, re-create them with your suggestion and PUF !!! It's Working !

Many thanks for your help... hope it helps more people.

I just got my Samsung Instinct a couple of days ago. It has been very intuitive with setting up everything but the Comcast email account. Thought you had the solution for me but still doesn't work whether I use the default or put in your port settings. I've made sure my user name and password are spot on. Have taken the battery out (one suggestion from another source) and tried it again, again and again. Have you heard of any more solutions? Got any other tricks up your sleeve?

Thanks, MJ