Mozilla Thunderbird

[coiotus]

Someone tells me what to do in Thunderbird settings like avast! to scan the email received in the computer?
i use XP

[DavidR]

Are you getting any errors, if so please state what those errors are.

[Nesivos]

Someone tells me what to do in Thunderbird settings like avast! to scan the email received in the computer?
i use XP

I am also one of the few remaining dinosaurs that still uses Thunderbird. ***   I have not had to do anything in avast! or Thunderbird to enable avast! scanning of Thunderbird emails.  I would suggest that if you are not that you use the Thunderbird addon NoScript.  I have not noticed any conflict between the avast! email shield and NoScript in Thunderbird

*** Mozilla recently announced that they will be shortly ending further development in Thunderbird and issue only semi-annual security fixes.

[CraigB]

*** Mozilla recently announced that they will be shortly ending further development in Thunderbird and issue only semi-annual security fixes.

Good, there going back to the release schedual that it used to be before all this rapid update rubbish.


Rares you would need to set the incomming and outgoing security in thunderbird to none for avast to be able to scan your email  ( if that is what your asking )

[Gopher John]

See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2499053 and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model.

It seems more like there is a freeze on feature development for Thunderbird.  The 6 week release schedule may be maintained for security fixes, to keep it in line with Firefox Gecko.

From the wiki

Mozilla is focusing a lot of its efforts towards important web and mobile projects, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop only email client. We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla and that the most critical needs for the product are on-going security and stability. In fact, it is quite possible that Thunderbird is already pretty much what its users want and there is not a high demand for innovation in this field.

From the forum, a user's take on this

It seems they propose that Mozilla just add security fixes, continue to update every 6 weeks, and rely upon module owners to accept/manage "community contributions".

[coiotus]

Yes, I understand ... I refer to the ins and outs!

[Gopher John]

Yes, I understand ... I refer to the ins and outs!

I apologize for the Thunderbird discussion.  See https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=842.  Thunderbird should have similar settings for the servers.  SSL must be disabled in Thunderbird so the Avast Mail Shield can scan.  Avast Mail Shield will handle the encrypted connection to the server.

[DavidR]

Which is why I asked Rares in the first reply if he was getting any errors, etc. (not answered) If he isn't and emails are being scanned then he doesn't need to apply any changes in thunderbird.