Redirecting SSL Ports 465 & 995

[cusumanoi]

When I redirect ports 465 and 995 for my Google Mail that use an SSL connection my mail client can no longer connect.  It has no problem with the my Comcast Mail which uses the standard ports 25 and 110.  Any ideas?

[Lisandro]

Take a look here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10428.0 to see how to set up secure email with avast!.

The solution is to pass e-mail in and out un-encrypted from your client (Outlook Express, Thunderbird, ...) to a proxy program (Stunnel) that does the actual ssl or tls encryption/decryption of the pop3/smtp e-mail and communicates directly with the ISP server on the appropriate ports. Download here: http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html

Advanced configuration: please refer to this post http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8775.msg97026#msg97026

[alanrf]

No antivirus can scan secure connections.

Trying to make avast do so will cause the problem you have seen - the answer is don't do it.

avast works with the standard ports 110 and 25 because they are not secure connections.