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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 2:59 AM

Will comcast force us to transition to yahoo email?

I transitioned one of my family's comcast email accounts to yahoo and , after much needless pain , got it to work. 

Sort of.

Between ads, what appears to be messages in a text box on the yahoo webmail page from a reputed phishing site , and MOST IMPORTANTLY an aggressive spam filter that CANNOT BE SHUT OFF  , the experience is not particulrly joyful.  

If you use outlook to manage your email, be aware that the first thing yahoo does is decide whether an incoming message is spam. 

If it thinks it is spam, no filter gets executed and into the spam folder it goes. 

Once there, it is inaccessible to outlook.

You have to go to the yahoo web page and  manually move the supposed spam. 

This supposedly "trains" the spam engine. 

So now, on that account I have a new manual task that I have to remember to execute.

Some research shows that this is not a new issue for yahoo, it is at least a few years old and clearly they aint gonna fix it. 

Great.

To say I'm annoyed is a bit of an understatement. 

If I had it to do over again, I would not do it.

So I wonder whether I'll be forced with the rest of the family accounts?

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scooternh Sorry to hear about your experience switching over to Yahoo. For the account you did switch over any support for the email is handled by the Yahoo team as we will no longer have access to the email or the settings. As for your other family emails the switch to Yahoo is not required. So as long as you do not opt in to migrating those over they will remian on our platform. 

 

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2 days ago

Well gee thanks😡.  I wish Xfinity had said this in September 2025 when you were pushing people to yahoo.  I'm keeping my mother's email in comcast. 

I, on the other hand, need to get off yahoo.

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Well gee thanks😡.  I wish Xfinity had said this in September 2025 when you were pushing people to yahoo.  I'm keeping my mother's email in comcast. 

I, on the other hand, need to get off yahoo.

The pause in migration to Yahoo! Mail only occurred toward the beginning of January; it wasn't announced to us, it just suddenly happened.

Regarding email migration to Yahoo! Mail  It’s currently optional to make the switch. Eventually, we do plan to migrate everyone to the Yahoo servers (probably by late 2026) to keep our email systems streamlined. We’ll keep you posted as that timeline gets closer!

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