aVast Home and FoxMail

[fossie]

I am trying to configure Foxmail 6 and aVast.

I have used the Email protection Wizard and when I get emails I can see the icon moving across in the system tray. However the scanned message is not being inserted.

I have also tried manually setting up with:

SMTP SERVER
127.0.0.1
username#smtp.provider.co.nz (in authorisation )


POP3SERVER
127.0.0.1
POP3Account
username#pop.provider.co.nz

But this doesn't work - it rejects username#pop.provider.co.nz

I have previously used Pocomail with the settings above and that was fine but can't seem to get it right with FoxMail.

Any ideas?

[Lisandro]

If you have Windows 98\Me, the change of the login settings is normal while using avast. See http://forum.avast.com/index.php?action=display;board=2;threadid=7913;start=0#msg64228

With Win98 SE you should have:

pop3 server= smtp server = 127.0.0.1
username = mail.server.coml#user or mail.server.com#user@server.com
smtp authentication enabled and the username there = mail.server.coml#user or mail.server.com#user@server.com

With Windows XP, you should do nothing, change nothing, the scanning is transparent 

[fossie]

I have Windows 98 4.10 2222A (taken from system info)

I have tried

using Wizard and making sure all the boxes are ticked as per instructions in the link above i.e.

but still the messages are not being inserted.

I have also tried tried your instructions as 98 SE:
pop3 server = 127.0.0.1
mail.server.com#user and then mail.server.com#user@server.com


smtp server = 127.0.0.1
mail.server.com#user and then mail.server.com#user@server.com

I get gethostbyname error 11001 for the settings above.



Any idea - many thanks

[fossie]

It's ok I've done it

I was doing

127.0.0.1

and it should have been

127.0.0.1.

dumb!

[DavidR]

Not dumb, the 127.0.0.1 should have worked the . 'periods' are separators and as such you shouldn't need the last one, strange; perhaps adding the last period separator was coincidental.

[Lisandro]

Sorry if I'm being silly, but are you changing the mail.server.com to your real mail server name?
And the #user by your real email user account?
Did you check to add notes in clean messages into avast settings?

Don't forget that you will not see the inserted note in the 'Sent Items' folder of your mail program, because avast adds the note after the mail leaves the mail program.