Hello! I have avast! version 4.5 Home edition, and I use Microsoft Outlook Express 6 to send/receive several email accounts on different servers.
I have used this avast! and Outlook Express, and have had the settings in for these email accounts for quite some time with no problem, but just today I have started having a problem. I can receive email just fine, but when I try to send email it goes through the normal routine on Outlook Express, "connecting, authorizing, sending" and the green status bar fills up as though it's going but then it just hangs there. Eventually I get the timeout notification. After trying forever to figure out what was going I realized that it was the scanner that was hanging so I did a "pause provider" on internet mail and then tried to send and it went fine. Resumed the provider and tried doing a send and it hung again. So I have had to go in and turn off the option to scan outgoing email.
I am just wondering why this has happened all of the sudden, when I haven't changed anything? Is this due to a recent avast! update? Do I just need to leave the outgoing scan turned off, or is there some other setting I can change to make it work again?
Thanks,
Angela