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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Yoshi2889 on July 12, 2012, 03:16:42 PM
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Hello!
I've installed Avast! on my laptop, running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Love it!
For additional protection however, I'd like the Mail shield to check over my mails every so often. I've tried to setup the shield to use my mail account, with no luck.
My mail provider is iCloud, the service from Apple. You can find details on their servers here (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864).
When I setup Avast!, and disable SSL in Thunderbird as Avast tells me to do so, Thunderbird keeps bugging me that it is unable to connect to the incoming mail server.
How should I configure the mail server in both Avast! and Thunderbird?
If you need my current setup, please do ask :)
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Disable SSL/TSL protection for Incoming server and Outgoing server.
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That's what I tried to do, I have my settings like this in Thunderbird:
http://prntscr.com/bz032 (incoming)
http://prntscr.com/bz08a (outgoing)
And these are my settings in Avast!:
http://prntscr.com/bz07h
It's all in dutch. The options which are SSL are "Verbindingsbeveiliging" in Thunderbird.
Also after a while thunderbird says that the connection time has expired.
Any more ideas? :)
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maybe the video helps
https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=917
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Your settings in thunderbird still show Secure ports for IMAP and SMTP, this will stop avast being able to redirect these ports, scan the email traffic and then initiate the secure connection to send the email.
Your avast SSL Account information is correct, but you need to set the thunderbird accounts to non-SSL ports.
Also see - https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=842 (https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=842).
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Thanks Pondus, I watched the video and did all what it said, but still it does not work. It still does not receive mail, and stops with the message that the connection expired.
DavidR, I reset the ports to the default ones Thunderbird mentioned when watching the video both of you provided, it still fails to work, see above.
EDIT: Woops, failed to see the difference in links. I'll go check out DavidR's link in a moment :)
EDIT2: Works now, thanks!
Thunderbird doesn't show the last number of the default port, so I entered 14 instead of 143 at IMAP. Thanks for the help guys!
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You're welcome.
That is why I like the text/image based knowledge base article, perhaps a little more detailed than the video.
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You're welcome.
That is why I like the text/image based knowledge base article, perhaps a little more detailed than the video.
Yeah, video's are pretty messy when it comes to doing steps (you can't just easily go back to a previous step without doing the video partially over again), that's why we have a Wiki running at SMF's place. Although not everyone thinks so, it's good to have alternatives :)
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Thanks Pondus, I watched the video and did all what it said, but still it does not work. It still does not receive mail, and stops with the message that the connection expired.
DavidR, I reset the ports to the default ones Thunderbird mentioned when watching the video both of you provided, it still fails to work, see above.
EDIT: Woops, failed to see the difference in links. I'll go check out DavidR's link in a moment :)
EDIT2: Works now, thanks!
Thunderbird doesn't show the last number of the default port, so I entered 14 instead of 143 at IMAP. Thanks for the help guys!
I,m glad you solve problem with TB and Avast,if you want you can send "test" email to yourself to test Avast mail shield.
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Thanks Pondus, I watched the video and did all what it said, but still it does not work. It still does not receive mail, and stops with the message that the connection expired.
DavidR, I reset the ports to the default ones Thunderbird mentioned when watching the video both of you provided, it still fails to work, see above.
EDIT: Woops, failed to see the difference in links. I'll go check out DavidR's link in a moment :)
EDIT2: Works now, thanks!
Thunderbird doesn't show the last number of the default port, so I entered 14 instead of 143 at IMAP. Thanks for the help guys!
I,m glad you solve problem with TB and Avast,if you want you can send "test" email to yourself to test Avast mail shield.
Awesome idea, I haven't really tested the SMTP stuff yet. I'll be right back :)
EDIT: Works fine too, thanks :)