Hi,
Why avast! have to change the server and user in the E-mail Client to scan the mail? What is the advantage of this method, when the others AV’s doesn’t use it…
Today I installed the avast! Home Edition to a friend, and the Mail Wizard didn’t work with Thunderbird. I had to change it manualy…
One suggestion: It’s possible in an email subject, when it have a virus, have the subject changed like this: [virus %VirusName%]
It will be nice to see the name of the virus in the subject…
Regards
Thunderbind does not word with MPW… at least is what could I read in these forums. Hope I’m wrong…
The changed servers are necessary to scan the email through the local computer (127.0.0.1). I heard that, in the future, another method of detection the download of emails (probably monitoring the smtp/pop3 ports of your computer) could (or will) be used 
In fact, you will have the line avast [Infected] into the subject line.
Maybe they can (or want) to tweak to the one you suggested
P.S.: are you ‘translating’ Brazilian version to Portugal one?
V…C,
Technical is correct. Although the MPW works with Thunderbird sometimes, it is better to configure it manually as I do with Pegasus and a few others.
The MPW was designed to work with the more common mail clients such as MS Exchange, Eudora, and Outlook Express.
Directing email to the local computer (127.0.0.1) is the easiest to do and many other mail programs use this method for redirects such as MailDirect which becomes the “local computer” bypassing your ISP server and sending the email directly to the recipient.
However, your comments are good ones. Maybe we will see them in Avast 4.5.
Nice of you to join the forum.
Techie101
There’s a nonzero chance that the Mail Protection Wizard will become obsolete in one of the upcoming builds (that is, no mail client reconfiguration will be necessary to scan mail). At least under Windows 2000 and higher.
Cheers
Vlk
Thanks
I hope so… ;D
And about the suggestion, what you think?
The extensions that the “Internet Mail” will scan will be the same of the “Standard Shied”?
Vlk: What you think about the suggestion that I make in the first post of this thread?
???
Can someone clarify this?
Another question:
I set the avast! to only watch my incoming email, and he still watching the ports of SMTP and IMAP, why?
If you disable scanning SMTP in ‘Internet Mail provider’ but your outgoing mail is redirected to 127.0.0.1 in your mail accounts, it would stop working if avast stopped listening on port 25.
If you want to disable listening, you have to edit file avast4.ini. Insert these lines under [MailScanner]:
StartSmtp=0
StartImap=0
My outgoing mail doesn’t be redirected to 127.0.0.1
If we disable the SMTP and IMAP in the options, this should be automatically disabled, without edit the avast4.ini… 
Can this be changed automatically in the next version?
Thanks
Even doing this some users - including me - are experiencing trouble while sending mail 
In my case, only when smtp authentication is needed :-\
I have a doubt about the Internet Mail component.
If I only have the POP incoming email to be scanned, the outgoing features in ‘Heuristics’ and ‘Advanced Heuristics’ works?
I always had this enable, but only now remember to ask…
Thanks
I don’t have any problem
I just want to know if the outgoing features in ‘Heuristics’ and ‘Advanced Heuristics’ works if I have the Outgoing mail (SMTP) scanner disabled…
So, can someone say something about this?
Thanks
as far as I know, when outgoing (SMTP) scan is disabled in “internet mail provider”, the scan is not performed, which includes heuristics, either advanced or not.
This have logic, but why if we disable the Outgoing mail scanner, we still have these options enable to be changed?
Isn’t better if these options only be available when the Outgoing mail scanner is enable?