If you leave your settings as they were before the update - it should work with avast4.5 as well. Especialy having pop3/smtp server set to 127.0.0.1, and username as my_real_name#my_pop3_server.domain.net.
It is NOT necessary but it shoud work.
We recommend to setup you mail client as if avast! is not installed - but the old way works pretty the same as in previous versions.
This is simply not true. Well maybe it is, sort of.
If you leave the settings as they were BEFORE the update, it WON'T work. The reason is that you would have to change the ports in your mail program as well. The default port numbers are now 12025 for SMTP, 12110 for POP3 and 12143 for IMAP4.
So, the're basically two ways to make it work if you have set up the mail protection manually prior to updating to 4.5:
- either leave the 127.0.0.1 settings in your mail client as they were, BUT instruct the mail client to use the port numbers mentioned above
- OR reconfigure the mail clients as avast was not present at all (i.e. switch 127.0.0.1 back to pop.myprovider.com and username to
myusername instead of
myusername#pop.myprovider.com.
Users of Zone Alarm may experience another problem when using the 2nd method, though. This is being discussed in different threads on the forum and we are working hard to solve it.
Thanks,
Vlk