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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Garye on December 03, 2003, 12:04:56 AM

Title: Thunderbird
Post by: Garye on December 03, 2003, 12:04:56 AM

I'm running Avast home edition with Mozilla thunderbird. I can't get the auomatic E-mail scan to work. I've run the wizzard and used the auto option without luck. Can anyone help???

Title: Re:Thunderbird
Post by: .: Mac :. on December 03, 2003, 12:42:05 AM

I would also like to know hot to scan thunserbird email Im usine version 0.3

Title: Re:Thunderbird
Post by: denro on December 03, 2003, 01:58:21 AM

I am running Mozilla mail, version 1.6, off of which Thunderbird is built.  Right click on account name, go to Server settings:

Server name should be 127.0.0.1
User name should be   your account name, for instance,
denro@anISP.net#myISPpopserver

Then go to Outgoing Server (SMTP) and do similarly with Server name and user name.  This works well and i have tested with with eicor.com in a zip file both sending and receiving and avast scans the email IMO better than Norton.

Hope this helps

Title: Re:Thunderbird
Post by: Lisandro on December 03, 2003, 02:14:31 AM

Quote from: denro on December 03, 2003, 01:58:21 AM

avast scans the email IMO better than Norton.

He he he, of course  ;D

Title: Re:Thunderbird
Post by: .: Mac :. on December 03, 2003, 02:36:57 AM

thank you Thunderbird's email is being scanned  ;D
did garye's work?

Title: Re:Thunderbird
Post by: Garye on December 04, 2003, 08:10:22 PM

Yep, Thanks a bunch :)

Title: Re:Thunderbird
Post by: larryni on December 04, 2003, 11:16:20 PM

Excellent  :)

Question: Is it enough to simply enter the smtp server in the specified field? I don't actually need a username and password with my ISP. If I enter 127.0.0.1 as the server name I don't really know which way to enter username#smtpserver.

Title: Re:Thunderbird
Post by: Vlk on December 04, 2003, 11:33:44 PM

Enter

#yoursmtpservername

to username, and leave password blank.

Also make sure that you have UseDefaultSMTP=0 in avast4.ini.

Vlk