Comcast mail issues

How do I read comcast mail in iPad. It will not open.

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Comcast has had a longtime standing problem with their SMTP servers. I found out I had to contact their second tier tech support to get the correct mail server to be using with their service when I tried using them some 8 years ago. Boy that was an adventure. We finally found out that smtp.comcast.net or mail.comcast.net was not what I needed. What I needed to use with a mail server on the first hop out on the traceroute to their mail server. Open Network Utility, and select traceroute. Select the mail server they assigned you. Find if you've got a different comcast address that appears first. The other thing that may help is assigning both your machine and your linksys routers an open dns DNS server: http://www.opendns.org/

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