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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Monty on November 13, 2004, 10:20:03 PM
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The old version of mail checking used to work fine, but this new automatic one isn't being triggered for my webmail accounts that I access through POP3 proxies.
Most importantly it now means my hotmail acount, which is my biggest source of viruses, isn't being scanned.
I'm using hotmail popper, yahoopops, and web2pop.
Can the mail scanning still be manually configured somehow for such accounts?
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Add the following line to the [MailScanner] section of <avast>\data\avast4.ini :
IgnoreLocalhost=0
The change should become effective immediately.
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That works thanks :D, but only if port 110 is used.
For me that is fine, since although I've got 3 different proxies on different ports for different webmail accounts, they all go through another single chained proxy for spam filtering. Putting the spam filter on 110 gets them all automatically virus checked.
If I didn't run it through the spam filter though, it would be a problem.
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If I didn't run it through the spam filter though, it would be a problem.
Not really :)
In that case, you'd add something like
PopRedirectPort=110,1110,1111
etc (obviously replacing 1110, 1111 by the real port numbers) to the [MailScanner] section of avast4.ini.
Hope this helps,
Vlk
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Add the following line to the [MailScanner] section of <avast>\data\avast4.ini :
IgnoreLocalhost=0
The change should become effective immediately.
Vlk, what's the difference from the value AutoRedirect in the same section?
pk hasn't informed me about this new item :P
What will be the description for it? I mean, its behavior, so I could add it into my avast4.ini thread. Thanks.
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If I didn't run it through the spam filter though, it would be a problem.
Not really :)
In that case, you'd add something like
PopRedirectPort=110,1110,1111
etc (obviously replacing 1110, 1111 by the real port numbers) to the [MailScanner] section of avast4.ini.
Hope this helps,
Vlk
I am about to add the lines Vlk mentioned to avast4.ini. I am using two paid Hotmail accounts under one identity within Outlook Express 6 SP2. Under this identity there is another POP/SMTP email account. I use no proxy for email accounts. I am apologize for my ignorance. Under the above email accounts, esp. in reference to the Hotmail accounts, what will the complete lines including ports do I need add to avast4.ini?
Again, I know this is a pain-on-the-butt question. :-[ Thanks for the help. :)
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I am using two paid Hotmail accounts under one identity within Outlook Express 6 SP2.
If I'm not wrong, Hotmail is scanned by McAfee...
It's not a pop3/smtp servers account, maybe avast can't scan such email accounts... :'(
Sorry... did you try with other email accounts? Does avast work with them? :-[
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I also added SMTPRedirectPort=25,215,225 to my .ini file. I am not getting any errors and my Yahoo and Hotmail are sending mail and scanning with avast using Thunderbird, Hotmailpopper and YahooPOPs!
Not sure if that was correct or not, but everything seems to be working.
If I didn't run it through the spam filter though, it would be a problem.
Not really :)
In that case, you'd add something like
PopRedirectPort=110,1110,1111
etc (obviously replacing 1110, 1111 by the real port numbers) to the [MailScanner] section of avast4.ini.
Hope this helps,
Vlk
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Yahoo and Hotmail are sending mail and scanning with avast using Thunderbird, Hotmailpopper and YahooPOPs!
Ok, the two last applications work like pop3/smtp servers so you're seing the same behavior... ;) :)
Does TB work with Hotmail and Yahoo? Do you get your emails scanned?
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I also added SMTPRedirectPort=25,215,225 to my .ini file. I am not getting any errors and my Yahoo and Hotmail are sending mail and scanning with avast using Thunderbird, Hotmailpopper and YahooPOPs!
Thanks, gwheaton. Great hint!
I use only Hotmail paid subscriptions within Outlook Express. I just made the following attempt.
Please kindly confirm all added information in resulting [Mail Scanners] section is correct.
Please confirm the POP port for Hotmail is 110, SMTP port for hotmail is 25. Thank you!
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Objectives: To make avast 4 Pro scan emails sent/received via Hotmail accounts used within Microsoft Outlook Express 6SP2
Methods: Adding the following lines to, [MailScanner] of avast4.ini, located at "C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA"
IgnoreLocalhost=0
PopRedirectPort=110
SMTPRedirectPort=25
Resulting [MailScanner] section:
[MailScanner]
DefaultPopServer=mail.mymailserver.com
DefaultSmtpServer=mail.mymailserver.com
ShowTrayIcon=0
UseDefaultSmtp=0
AutoSetProtection=1
PopListen=127.0.0.1:110
SmtpListen=127.0.0.1:25
ImapListen=127.0.0.1:143
IgnoreLocalhost=0
PopRedirectPort=110
SMTPRedirectPort=25
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PopRedirectPort=110
SMTPRedirectPort=25
I have the above confirmed by MSN Hotmail Plus tech support. Added those three lines to avast4.ini. The result is that avast scans incoming mails but not outgoing ones. I have one POP mail account and two Hotmail accounts setup under one identity within Outlook Express 6....