Ok I've had a problem for about a week. I have two comcast accounts. One worked fine and the second one which is still not the primary would only download emails through 8/14/12 and previously. I tried everything, talked to Verizon, they got Comcast on the phone, Comcast disavowed any knowledge of the problem.
Went to the Apple Store, not their problem "comcasts". Went into Verizon twice, still no answer.
Saw a post to backup phone to i tunes, which I did to save the data and apps and then rebuilt the original factory defaults. I am not an internet genius either. Nothing worked for more than a few minutes. I deleted cookies, re entered email account many many times. No answer. I also tried putting emails from that date into a folder on my computer in case they were "corrupted". I think I've tried everything and nothing lasted for more than a few minutes. I have all the current versions of software from Verizon and Apple.
Ok now I went to Comcast website where they talk about the ports in your apple mail accounts, They say sometimes you have to set your incoming server to 995 but sometimes you should also try 110 and turn ssl to "off"., I still have the outgoing port to 587 but all of a sudden I'm receiving new emails and the number is now up to 400 instead of 200. Coincidence?? So one account has the original settings and I've not had a problem receiving current emails and the one I just changed the ports don't match the other comcast email but it works. Not sure but now I do have current emails.
