Comcast email suddenly stops working

I have had two comcast email accounts on my iPhone 4 S for a year or more.  Suddenly last week I could not send email from one of the accounts.  It said the username or password was incorrect.  This dispite that fact that the phone still recieved email on that account.  After reading some posts here, I deleted the account on the phone, shut the phone down, turned it on again and attempted to add the account back in.  Unfortunately, it never was able to verify the account, so now I have lost the ability to recieve emails as well.  In the mean time, this same account works from my computer and the other comcast email continues on with no problems on all devices.  How do I fix this?

Hi mekus,
Welcome to Nokia Support Discussions!
In this kind of cases the first step would be to remove the existing mailboxes and set them up again. Alternatively you could reset your phone settings, which will also remove all mailboxes in the same go. Dial *#7780# followed by your security code (the default security code is 12345, unless you have changed it) to reset your phone settings, no other data lost.
Also, access the Gmail account on your computer to see if it requires you to fill a captcha or any other security test.
Let us know if this helps!
Puigchild
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