No. I've tried stopping and starting Thunderbird and even rebooting the entire system, but the status message always remains the same.
I just tried it again and, as I start up Thunderbird, Avast definitely seems to spot that something is happening, as the task bar icon revolves, but the Internet Mail icon remains greyed-out and the status message says it's still waiting for the subsystem to start.
I spotted the following message in another post, which seems to relate to a similar problem with Thunderbird. The trouble is that it involves modifying JavaScript files and I'm not familiar with how to do that:
Quote:
"Step by step:
(If you have thunderbird running, close it first)
1.) Find the "mailnews.js" file
(Usually located here: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\) and edit it
2.) Find these four entries:
pref("mail.imap.fetch_by_chunks", true);
pref("mail.imap.mime_parts_on_demand", true);
pref("mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks", true);
pref("mail.server.default.mime_parts_on_demand", true);
3.) now change the "true" to "false" in each entry and save the file.
4.) Voila! Avast finds all the Virii in all the Emails!"