My outgoing email on verizon.net is checked by Avast. The recipient sees the "Virus-free" logo at the bottom.
But it seems my outgoing email on a different email domain hosted on Network Solutions is NOT checked by Avast - there is no "Virus-free" logo at the bottom.
The good verizon.net email requires an SSL connection for the incoming (POP3) and outgoing (SMTP) and uses incoming port 995 and outgoing port 465.
The bad Network Solutions email does NOT require an SSL connection, it is also POP3 and SMTP, and it uses incoming port 110 and outgoing port 2525.
Attached is a jpg showing my Avast Redirect settings. It shows secure ports 995 for POP and 465 for SMTP, so the verizon.net email is good.
Avast Redirect shows (unsecure) ports 110 for POP and 25,587 for SMTP, so I am missing 2525 for the Network Solutions outgoing.
HOWEVER, when I added ,2525 to SMTP a month ago, my email stopped working correctly - I was not connecting correctly to email servers.
My email app is Outlook Express 6 on Win XP SP3 (still getting updates through the POS hack).
What do you think? Why does adding ,2525 cause problems? And if I could add it, would it cause Avast to start checking outgoing emails on the Network Solutions-hosted domain?
Thanks.