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Not extremely helpful but a probable indicator of some corruption somewhere. But I do remember in one attempt at fixing this while attempting to add it via the “system preference” “internet account” tab instead of the mail tab that I got an error that said “system preferences error”. I was blaming bad handshaking during the verification of account data thinking Comcast did not keep up with the latest operating system. Now I am not familiar enough with keychain to look for problems there but you might be on to something as I am able to set the account up without problems on one Mac running Yosemite but I can’t on the Mac running High Sierra. There is no opportunity to do any settings as you suggest that I know of. The screen then says “verifying” and then says “unable to verify ID / password”. After using “add account” in the mail tab, selecting “mail account” one has to enter account and password info. It may take a while for everything to finish downloading and importing if you’re ‘migrating’ your existing Comcast email address to a ‘new’ copy of Mail for OS X.One problem is that I can’t even get to a state where I can enter receiving port and outgoing port information manually.

Finished! Mail will now download all of your email messages.

Now you’ll be asked which Apps you’d like to use with this Comcast account.

After each of the fields have been filled in, click the Sign In button.

Once you’re at the Add a Mail account step, you’ll need to enter 3 (three) pieces of information: Your Name, your Email Address and the Password associated with that same email address.

On the Choose a Mail account provider… screen select Other Mail Account… and then click the Continue button.If the Choose a Mail account provider… window does appear right away, select Mail from the main Menu Bar, and then Add Account… from the ‘drop-down’ list.Launch Mail by going to your Applications folder and double-clicking it.This step by step guide will take you through configuring the Mail.app on your Mac (running either Yosemite or the latest version of OS X, El Capitan) to use with your email address.Īpple has actually made it quite simple to automatically detect the correct settings, so this should be very quick.