Dear avast Developers,
The Mail Scanner module is unable to establish the SSL connection with the server. In my case it's Opera/Gmail/IMAP on WinXP Pro SP3 - but reading through the forum others have the same problem with different mail clients, e-mail providers, protocols, on different systems. If this is true (and they really got all their settings right too), then it must be a bug in the avast module. At this point, of course, I can't tell why it is unable to establish the connection exactly - and it keeps trying endlessly until I close the mail client.
Just to make things crystal clear:
- ALL the settings are correct;
- nothing is blocking avast in any way to access the network;
- the related entry in the avast mail.log:
(...) Cannot establish SSL with IMAP server x.x.x.x:993, SSL_connect error 5
Since it seems that there are lucky ones who can get it to work without a hitch, the issue certainly needs a deeper investigation.
Thanks in advance for your effort.