In recent weeks, many Comcast subscribers have been having intermittent issues with their e-mail, but it’s been more of a nuisance than anything else. Unfortunately, yesterday afternoon it took a dramatically different turn. For over 8 hours, many (if not all) Comcast subscribers were unable to retrieve their e-mail, be it through POP3 (Outlook, etc) or Webmail.

The frustration lied in the fact that Comcast didn’t even acknowledge the problem, and instead people were queued up in the Live Chat Support trying to get answers. I stumbled across this thread last night, and it was there that I learned more about the situation..

Many of us rely too heavily on our ISPs for our e-mail, but after yesterday’s extended outage, I’m done.. From now on, I’ll use my own mail server!