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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on October 20, 2017, 01:32:05 PM

Title: Avast is stopping my email working!
Post by: REDACTED on October 20, 2017, 01:32:05 PM

Have spent about three hours this morning trying to work out why Microsoft Outlook email won't work. I have been continually getting error code 10060 when trying to connect.

Having looked through a few suggestions I tried disabling Avast; that didn't work. I then uninstalled it....lo and behold Outlook worked! So I re-installed Avast and surprise, surprise got the error message again. Uninstalled Avast once more and again Outlook now re-connects!

Will clearly have to try a different free one (I use Malwarebytes Premium as well) but Avast now stays off my system.

Title: Re: Avast is stopping my email working!
Post by: bob3160 on October 20, 2017, 05:30:09 PM

Have you tried SSL port (995) ?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_other/error-10060-cannot-connect-to-outgoing-smtp-server/34708df1-ab69-49df-9bd8-bb21025fe657 (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_other/error-10060-cannot-connect-to-outgoing-smtp-server/34708df1-ab69-49df-9bd8-bb21025fe657)