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Can't access email from secondary account
When I try to access email from my email client, all day I've been getting errors that the login failed. I can't log in to the website because it tells me I need to change my password and I don't have a verified phone or email to reset it (this has been going on awhile on the website but since I'd been able to log in from my email client, I didn't worry about it). When I log in to my primary account, I can no longer see any secondary accounts let alone manage them because I no longer use Xfinity as my internet provider since I moved 2 years ago.
After DMing with support, I tried calling the "Customer Security Assurance team". First time, the line hung up on me after I was holding for 10 minutes. Second time, I got through but the agent said there was some known issue (which is not documented anywhere? and which doesn't affect my primary account?) that is being worked on and didn't even pull up my account. I don't even think I was able to tell him any details, such as this being a secondary account- as soon as I said something about changing my password or not being able to log into email, he shut me down. I have never had such a poor customer service experience- and that bar is pretty low.
Is anyone else having similar problems? I feel like if this was a known issue, I'd be seeing tons of posts about it.
Latoque
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6 months ago
For former customers who want to keep using Comcast email, see here---------
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/email-only-faqs
And here:
https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/using-email-only
Once you were no longer a customer, you could keep the accounts but you have to have signed into them using the webmail interface periodically. Just leaving them running in a desktop client or mail app doesn't count as a sign-in. You didn't say if you had done this or not.
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ldbrin
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6 months ago
I can't access my secondary account either. Worked fine at 7am, then it stopped and says my password or name isn't valid when I try to sign in (via Outlook). My primary is working fine.
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XfinityGabriel
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6 months ago
Thanks for reaching back out @faithbur. I am happy to see that Latoque was able to provide some useful information. When you attempt to log in and you get the change password message, you are getting the option to reset the password with a verified phone number or email address. Does this sound correct? Would you mind sending over a picture of when you get that message to reset the password with a verified phone number or email address?
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bporter76
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6 months ago
Having exact same problem for 3-4 days now. Unable to reset using primary and use this secondary for business/job/banking activity. Need help from Xfinity please!
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faithbur
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6 months ago
Update: thanks to the support team here opening a ticket, I was contacted by a member of the CSA who was able to fix the issue very quickly.
Once I got into my email, I saw a notice that Comcast had reset my password which was sent hours after my password started getting rejected. It's a bit useless to send an email alerting a customer that their password won't work when they can't login to see the email since their password no longer works:
We've reset your password
We want to help you keep your account protected
To keep our customers' accounts protected, we recently asked everyone to reset their password. In our final review we noticed yours has not yet been changed so we’ve taken steps to secure your account. Please call us at 1-800-Xfinity (from 9:00 am to 12:00 am EST, 7 days/week) to speak with one of our Xfinity customer service agents, who can help you reset your account password.
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