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Saturday, July 19th, 2025

Excessive time delays for receiving emails

Xfinity email takes way too long to receive emails. It is impossible to access any of my financial/bank/credit card accounts that require the sending of access codes that have 10-15 minute timers. They always time out. I have had customer service reps at my credit cards and bank tell me that this is a frequent problem with many of their customers who have Xfinity/Comcast.  Sometimes it takes almost a day to receive an email. If I send a picture from my phone to my email, some never arrive at all and some take DAYS. I have already done all of the troubleshooting: I have already restarted the modem, I do not have a 3rd party email carrier, there is no internet connectivity problem, all of the email settings are correct, and it is not the sender (because it even happens to ME as the sender, on Xfinity), not a configuration problem, and I'm not using a VPN. It's not all the time; it's very unpredictable and irregular. 

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16 days ago

Hi @redhummingbird1. Thank you for visiting our Xfinity Forums Community support page. We can most certainly help attempt troubleshooting your Xfinity Email delivery issues. Are you using an application/program to receive your emails or are you logging on to the Xfinity Email web portal to access your emails? 

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Xfinity website on a pc. 

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With using the Xfinity web portal to access your emails, could you please create a new email and send it to yourself and let us know how long it takes to get delivered @redhummingbird1

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That only takes a few minutes from my own pc to myself on pc, but that is not the issue I reported. 

The issue is receiving on the pc, from the phone messaging app., and from others.  

From my phone app, takes over a day, and sometimes not received at all. 

From others, like credit cards, banks, or anywhere where I have 2 factor authentication that needs me to receive a code, takes several hours to overnight/next day. 

I just sent myself a message at 1:55p. I waited until 2:25p before sending this message.

The message I sent is still not received in my inbox (yes I refreshed the screen), so has been 1/2 hour now and not received.

I'll check back to this post again to let you know what time it arrives. 

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Update - the message arrived in my inbox at 8:07 PM 

(sent at 1:55 p.m.) so took >6 hrs. 

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Thank you for the update, redhummingbird1! That was a very long time to wait for the email! Do you see the emails sitting in your inbox at the Xfinity email website for a long time before they come through to the app or are those also delayed?

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13 days ago

I am trying to reset a forgotten password.  The link to do so has been sent to my comcast email account at least three times in the last hour.  None have come through to my inbox.  I am on the webpage for my comcast email account, and also on my iPhone email app.  The link is timing out.  Please advise.

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By the way, your community response email replying to my post came through immediately!

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