
Originally Posted by
JohnLBurger
Simple. You have to set it up online. Keep in mind there are two options: 1) Have Comcast forward all messages to your Gmail account, or 2) Have Gmail check your Comcast email for you. I recommend the latter (number 2), so I'll cover that. If you want to go the Comcast way (number 1), you can do that through Comcast's online email client in Preferences I believe.
To set up Gmail to check your comcast email, go to Gmail on a computer, go to "Settings" (top right corner), and select the "Accounts and Import" tab. Here, under "Check mail using POP3," you want to "Add POP3 email account." Click on this, then enter your comcast email address, click "Next Step >>," verify your username is correct (should be fine), and enter your password. I believe you have to enter the following manually:POP Server should be "mail.comcast.net" and Port should be 995. If you use a desktop client for Comcast, want to keep it syncing to your Pre, or want to be able to still go into the online Comcast email client and see your email, check "Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server." Otherwise, any email that Gmail finds it will "Move" to gmail, meaning it's no longer on the Comcast server for other clients to use. Be sure to check "Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail."
Now here's something else to think about. If you want your comcast email to appear in your Gmail inbox just as if it was sent to your Gmail email, don't check "Label incoming messages" and don't check "Archive incoming messages." However, if you're like me and want to be able to differentiate between Gmail and Comcast email (without having to see what the To email address is), I recommend creating a label for all the Comcast email to have. I simply use "Comcast". Now, if you do this but don't select "Archive incoming messages," then online you'll be able to see the difference, but on your Pre the messages will be in the inbox and appear as if they were sent to the Gmail address. If you don't want this, check "Archive incoming messages." This means that your messages won't go to your inbox, which I believe means you wont get notifications for those on your Pre. What you can do, though, is on the main Email App screen, go down to that Gmail account, expand it, and you can see all the different folders. Each "Label" on Gmail is treated as a separate "Folder" on the Pre (and other IMAP clients), which I believe is exactly what you were wanting. If you want, all you have to do is star a folder to see it in the Favorites list (i.e. star "Comcast" and you can have it as a shortcut at the top, with unread count and all). Also, with Labels, you can now "Move to Folder" any emails in that Gmail account (including newly imported Comcast emails). (Btw this is standard in the Email App. The patch in Preware creates a button as a shortcut for doing this) This should allow for as much organization as you can think of. So online you should create the Labels you want, and they'll show up as Folders on the Pre. You can also set up Filters online that will automatically organize messages under certain criteria (i.e. everything from facebook gets the "Facebook" label). Also keep in mind that when in the main Inboxes view in the Email app, you can type to search folder names, so simply type Comcast or whatever and that folder will come right up!
I hope that isn't too much information, I realize I just typed a whole lot. But I wanted to give you as much information as I could.
Let me know if you have any more questions!!
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I also forgot to mention how to send mail as Comcast using Gmail online. From the same settings page, select "Send mail from another address" and add your Comcast address. You'll get a confirmation in your Comcast email, then you're good to go. You can even set Gmail up to automatically reply to messages from the same address they were sent to. Very useful. Although this doesn't carry over onto your Pre. To send email from Comcast on your Pre, you'll have to have it added as an email account. But you can set it to only sync Manually, that way it doesn't result in duplicates in All Inboxes.