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Hi there,
I´ve just installed the home version of avast 4.5. I´ve read a lot about this virus scanner and learned it´s working almost perfectly with thunderbird. But now I have run into some trouble:
After the installation Thunderbird is not able to connect to my mailboxes any more. I haven´t changed any settings so far because someone mentioned that avast will configure itself to run with TB. The funny thing is that poptray is able to get the new mail. I´ve done a search for TB & avast but that didn´t produce usefull results. Any ideas?
Thanks and cheers.
Eddy
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Read THIS and let us know if the problem is solved.
system
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PopTray is not the problem, it receives my mail which is checked by avast. The problem seem to be Thunderbird. I´ve followed almost every hint from the forum (localhost, modify the avast.ini,…) but TB only receives and sends when I disable the internet mail provider. When using the localhost I get a "can´t connect to 127.0.0.1) message.
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Now after I set my firewall to fully trust Thunderbird, it works. 
Welcome to forums…
Are you using Windows XP or 98\Me?
avast! works with multiple smtp/pop servers and can protect as many pop3/smtp server accounts as you want:
With 98\Me:
- Configure your email accounts to work without the antivirus and test them.
- If everything is fine, close all your email clients (programs).
- Start Menu > All programs > avast antivirus > Mail Protection Wizard
- Follow the non Outlook/Exchange option (i.e., the second one).
You can choose the supported email programs and select all the accounts
(even the ones created in the future).
- Configure your email accounts to use avast! as antivirus.
With XP:
With Windows 2k\XP, avast 4.5 has a new mail detection that will work automatically. Please, set up your email account just as avast does not exists. It will detect the pop3/smpt/imap ports and scan your messages. Can you make a try and see if it’s ok? Thanks.
New email detection is automatic and do not require user interaction. Anyway, spam killer applications need manually change email account settings 
Edit: Glad that you solve it… It took me a long time to write this and I have to leave… So, you were faster :-[ :-\