New BETA 4.5.536 - hopefully solving many of the issues...?

[Lisandro]

Still no ability to send mail    Times out
Win Xp Home SP2, Zone Alarm, Avast! 4.5.531, Turnpike mail client

Can you open a DOS window and run:

telnet your_smtp_server 25

and see if you get the welcome message of the server?
In the place of your_smtp_server write your real smtp server address.

[osborneuk]

dos window reports telnet not a valid command

[Lisandro]

dos window reports telnet not a valid command

I'm surprised...  
Are Telnet just a Windows XP Professional tool?
Did you write the command correctly, changing the generic name for your own smtp server address?

[Eddy]

Telnet is in both Windows XP Home and Pro

[housi]

Telnet is in both Windows XP Home and Pro

Correct, command works fine on my XP Pro.

[bob3160]

Technical it worked just fine when I used it and I have xp SP2 Home addition of windows.

[osborneuk]

I types at the dos C:\> prompt the following
telnet mail.btinternet.com 25

and got  'TELNET' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

XP Home SP2

so ...............

[Vlk]

There's now build 4.5.536 available on our beta server. It's probably the last of the betas before the next official release.

Besides some fixes (mostly mail-related) the biggest news is that it now fully supports 64-bit version of Windows XP.


Cheers
Vlk

[watchthisspace]

Cool, I can wait for the next release (or can I)  

[Arup]

There's now build 4.5.536 available on our beta server. It's probably the last of the betas before the next official release.

Besides some fixes (mostly mail-related) the biggest news is that it now fully supports 64-bit version of Windows XP.


Cheers
Vlk

Best news for me since I also run a dual K8 2800, scanning with Avast would now be a breeze, thank you very much Team Avast.

[UpLateVA]

There's now build 4.5.536 available on our beta server. It's probably the last of the betas before the next official release.

What's the URL for the new beta?

I didn't see anything listed on the "beta products" page (http://www.avast.com/eng/beta_products.html), nor any reference to a beta on the regular "download" page.

[Eddy]

What's the URL for the new beta?

http://forum.avast.com

Beta's are only for board members.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=9007

[UpLateVA]

Ahh ... I see now.  Thanks!

[UpLateVA]

I installed the latest beta (4.5.536).  It generally works fine, but it didn't solve the problem of failing to accommodate multiple SMTP servers.  (See separate thread: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=8867 )

Avast will scan and allow sending of messages for accounts using the default SMTP server, but not for those set up to send via an alternate SMTP server.  (Scanning of incoming messages in different accounts via multiple POP3 servers works fine, BTW.)

It's not a big problem, since accounts can be modified to send via the default SMTP server.  Just wanted to provide an update.

OS:  WinMe
Firewall:  ZA
Email program:  OE 6.0
Email accounts:  Server authentication (no SSL)

[Lisandro]

UpLateVA, did you set correctly the authentication options for stmp server into the email accounts settings?

Besides this, can you open a DOS window and run:

telnet your_smtp_server 25

and see if you get the welcome message of the server?
In the place of your_smtp_server write your real smtp server address.