This webpage probably gives the most information:
Information for Xfinity Comcast.net email accounts moving to Yahoo Mail
Needless to say I'm not very happy with this turn of events. I've been toying with going to a local fiber optic internet company and I think this will be the event to finally push me to do that. Comcast/Xfinity has been difficult to deal with for years, and now this. I had a Yahoo account and I hated it, and now my Comcast email account is being migrated there against my wishes.
Verizon sluffed off their email to AoL almost a decade ago - 2017.
Verizon bought AOL 10 years ago then did the same to us. Then they dumped AOL and we were told, “you want tech support, start writing checks...”
I don’t get how making life more difficult for customers will result in keeping their business.
FreeRepublic will give you e-mail service. Freepathon would appreciate a few dollars.
I’ve been happy with Yahoo Mail for more than twenty years........but I do use Yahoo premium, which currently costs $35 per year.
For that price I get good service with no ads or spam from Yahoo.
I use Yahoo Mail for the back end and Apple Mail for the front end.
It'd be easier to drive to the Moon that get a real person on line who speaks American English.
Cox made this move about 3 years ago. I didn’t care for it at first but have become accustomed to it. Kept my e-mail address the same so I didn’t need to make contact info changes with anyone.
ATT has been doing that for years.
I have not received my notice to change yet, but I have been hearing that they are slowly notifying everyone.
I have though of taking one of the promotional deals with an new internet provider for a lot cheaper monthly bill for 2 years. The one reason I have not is because the New internet provider did away with having their own E-mail several years ago. If the provider I have now did this then I would have no reason to stay with them.
Never have your email be associated with an ISP.
You may change ISPs, you don’t want that to force an email provider change.
I got my first personal email address from Pacific Bell Company back in the late 90s. Pacific Bell was “Regional Bell Operating Company.” They provided our landline phone service. I used a dial-up modem with them as the ISP, then upgraded to two bonded ISDN channels, then to DSL. They became “PacBell” part of Pacific Telesis, then SBC Communications, then SBC Pacific Bell. Then SBC acquired the original AT&T Corp. (the long-distance giant) and adopted the AT&T name, becoming AT&T Inc. Pacific Bell was integrated into this new national entity and began doing business as AT&T California. In 2006, Pacific Telesis was legally dissolved into AT&T Teleholdings. The Pacific Bell brand was fully retired for marketing in favor of the AT&T logo, though the legal name Pacific Bell Telephone Company still exists today as AT&T’s incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) in California.
Their DSL service was so crappy I left and went to Comcast cable plant for their triple play. Their service deteriorated so badly I left them after a decade and went to AT&T fiber.
Through all of that, my original email address from the mid 1990s still works. The @pacbell.net emails became legacy AT&T email accounts (alongside other former Baby Bell domains like @sbcglobal.net, @nvbell.net, etc.).
I access @pacbell.net via standard IMAP/SMTP settings in my Outlook and Apple Mail clients (with occasional requirements for app-specific passwords or secure mail keys due to 2FA).
The email has remained free for qualifying legacy customers such as me! Support became limited (actually almost non-existent) as it was treated as a legacy product.
In mid-2025, AT&T fully transitioned mail routing (MX records) for all its legacy consumer email domains—including pacbell.net—directly to Yahoo Mail’s infrastructure. Inbound email now routes purely through Yahoo servers, with improved integration into the modern Yahoo Mail experience (while still allowing login with the original @pacbell.net address. The addresses themselves were not deleted; existing accounts continue to work. However, the service is now essentially a Yahoo-hosted legacy email under the AT&T partnership umbrella.
Lots of blah, blah, blah there that will make your eyes glaze over. But the most astonishing thing is that, through all those corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, my @pacbell.net address continues to work. After 30 years! And I don’t pay a dime! It just works.
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😠 I no longer use their cable service. But do use the internet and mail. It seems all they do is act like they don’t even want our business.
As if Commiecast doesn’t stink bad enough.
I got this email a long time ago. The message explicitly stated that I could keep my email address, but when I started the process to go to Yahoo mail, I got a message that I couldn’t keep my address. So I stopped & haven’t transitioned. I was wondering if I’d be forced to do this. I don’t want to have to change my email address.
Email Mail we don’t sell your information we rent it out?.
A lot of the ISPs have decided they don’t want to be in the email business, so they’ve been outsourcing it. Mine went to Yahoo a couple years ago. It kinda blows.
I will never, ever, pay another penny to ComCrap.