How to add your Comcast Email in the Windows 8's native Mail app

As a user of Windows 8 since the beginning, beta release (Consumer Preview) and user of Window RT on my beloved Surface RT, I have found the Productivity Apps, particularly, the Mail app to be pretty useless. The Mail app is functional (and I use that term loosely), but limited at best. And, it does not support the POP mail protocol. This is not a slight to POP email, which a lot of ISP's and Email providers still stand on, as much as it is a bit premature. The logic is the same reasoning behind the Adobe Flash conundrum. To force the adoption of HTML 5 over the leaky, insecure Flash, Apple stopped supporting Flash in their mobile products. Later, Adobe stopped making the mobile version. Later Google and Microsoft (in its RT products) stopped providing it and here we are. Problem is, a great majority of websites still support Flash as primary multimedia delivery plugin. That is why most mobile tablet and phone devices cannot access certain multimedia content. Same goes for POP (Post Office Protocol), which is even older and less secure. Microsoft left POP off of favored protocol list. Microsoft's webmail services, namely Hotmail, and other webmail services, like Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and such, work just fine. Comcast users like myself, as well as many, many other Email users from various none webmail, IMAP Email services, were left twisting in the "Windows". So, you read the headline, what's the twist. Ok, disclaimer time, 1. this is a tip for Comcast ISP customers like myself. 2. This is a trial of Comcast's Xfinity IMAP protocol. First, you need to go to the Xfinity IMAP trial and sign up. It will take up to 72 hours for Comcast to roll you over to their IMAP servers. Comcast will email you, welcoming you to the trial. It only took about a day for me, but you will received a second email telling you that you are part of the trial and giving you a link to the IMAP settings. Next, you open the native Mail app, swipe from the right or press Windows Key + C, press the Setting Sprocket, select Accounts, Add a Account, Select Other account, and enter the incoming server as IMAP.COMCAST.NET. The outgoing server is SMTP. COMCAST.NET. That is pretty much it. If you are not a Comcast Xfinity customer, you will need to consult your particular Email provider to see if they can provide an IMAP solution.