I am trying to set up Avast Server to notify me of a virus infection. However no matter what I enter into the SMTP and Alert sections of the settings I cannot get it to send me an email. These are known good settings, as I already use them for notifications from others servers and printers.
I get various errors during testing, all of which are vague and unhelpful (i.e. "Error - message could not be sent"). I am now trying to use Gmail as an SMTP relay since using my work SMTP server apparently doesn't work either.
Here's how I have it set up:
Under Alerts in Program Settings: Net alert address is set to my work email, the one I want to receive the notifications.
Under SMTP:
Server address: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 445
From address: My Personal Gmail address
SMTP server requires authentication: checked
Username: my gmail address
Password: my gmail password
This is the error I get:
"A request to send of receive data was disallowed because the socket had already been shut down in that direction with a previous shutdown call - The alert cannot be sent".
There also seems to be no option for TLS, so I assume Avast is trying to use just SSL alone.
