I have placed Mailwasher.exe in Exclusions
What did you do? Include mailwasher.exe into the exclusions lists or exclude it 'just' for the Mail Scanner (into avast4.ini file)/
I have set Mailwasher NOT to include the accounts which usually give me connection timeout problems but I am still getting the Connection Timout Pop Up window appearing on a regular basis for Mailwasher.Exe
Did you increase the timeout of your email client (account properties) and avast timeout (Internet Mail provider settings)?
When I check Mailwasher I'm not getting any indication that any accounts are being timed out. This is getting very frustrating.
Are you receiving the timeouts or not...? I'm confused here...?!
I included Mailwasher in the exclusions list. I have not amended the avast4.ini file.
In Internet Mail I selected Customize>Advanced and in Silent Mode selected with general answer Yes (OK) just to see if this made any difference.
I have not adjusted the Timeout Internet for Internet communications(s) from the default of 120 secs although I was thinking of trying this.
At the moment all my accounts in Outlook Express are set under Advanced as Server Timeouts of 1 minute (short).
Mailwasher was set by default to check for new messages every 2 minutes but I have extended this to 10 minutes to see if that helps.
I have several email accounts and one email provider in particular does periodically have server timeout problems. When this happens Mailwasher gives a server timeout error.
Between my last entry and your reply, Avast was flagging up the Internet Connection timeout error every minute or so. As soon as I cleared one message by clicking OK the next one came up.
When I checked Mailwasher this did not show any timeout errors for the troublesome server accounts. I had in any case excluded them from being polled automatically by Mailwasher so this should not have been causing any timeout problem.
Since clearing the last Avast error and writing this reply, the system seems to have settled down again as I am not receiving any warnings from Avast.
As Mailwasher only displays messages that are stored on the email server, nothing is downloaded to the hard drive until I select Process Mail, at which time Mailwasher will delete or bounce any spam on the server and then start Outlook Express. Only when I select Receive All with Outlook Express download messages to my drive, so it's only at this stage that the messages need to be scanned by Avast.
I assumed that by including Mailwasher in the exclusions list this would stop Avast scanning Mailwasher and get around any timeout problems.
I am incidentally on ADSL so my Internet connection is always on.