Lukor, i have been using outpost since version 2.0 & think it one of the best firewalls goin (specially compared to ZA)
U might have found the DNS cache plugin bug, a lot of folk asked about this at the outpost forum & it was recommended to disable it, i had probs with it myself till i disabled it.
The previous 2.5 version did have major probs with My Address attacks (127.0.0.1) i had lots of them just using firefox, when i got one i havd to unblock it & then close FF & reopen it to get it to do any browsing, since i installed version 2.5.370, i havent had anymore probs at all till i decided to try Avast again (it was these probs that made me move to NOD after all version of 4.5 didnt allow me to get my mail.
I am now using the OE rule U posted a screenie off & have added the same ports as U did both to OE & mailwasher & now finally it all seems to work using the new mail protection (i changed it back to the new way to try Ur advice.
I did try enabling the global allow loopback rule in the system settings & rebooted, but it didnt make any difference at all (i was still prompted to make a rule for locahost.
Many many thanks for Ur help Lukor & to others that posted, thanks to U it now seems sorted.I will trial it over the next couple of days to make sure everythin is ok & then move back to using the best AV out there
Cheers
BaNzI
PS, i will post a link to this thread at the outpost forums incase anyone else has been having probs, im also a big enough man to admit i was wrong to blame avast when it looks like it was outpost's fault, so to Avast team a big sorry for thinkin it Ur prog at fault, & a big smack for outpost for not askin for the other ports