I run Spam Inspector 4.0 and as e-mail comes in it is scanned for spam messages. I would ALSO like to have it scan for viruses, but I cannot seem to get the two to work together with each other…
Is there something I am missing or some advice I could get
How is the configuration needed by Spam Inspector?
I mean, what is written into the help files for configuration the email accounts?
127.0.0.1&yourname@yourserver
localhost&yourname@yourserver
Could you post more information? 
I’m still relatively new to this aspect of it… could you be a little more specific as to what settings you are looking for and I will most happily figure them out and reply ;D
It’s a technical question we’re asking, so you’re forgiven ;).
A bit of background. Before you started using spam inspector, way back when you first started using your email program, you had to configure your email program with the names of the smtp and pop3 servers used by your ISP. The entries would have looked something like:
smtp.yourhost.com and pop.yourhost.com
SMTP and POP are just examples. They’re commonly used, but could be different. The point is, these identified the incoming and outgoing mail servers used by your ISP. Your mail program connected directly to them to get your mail.
Then, you added spam inspector. Since only one program can simultaneously connect to your account with the ISP, the spam inspector program was probably configured to see the email on the ISP’s server and pass the email to the mail program. That means the mail program’s configuration was changed (either manually by you, or automatically by spam inspector) so that it now looks somewhere else (not the original smtp.yourhost.com and pop.yourhost.com) to find where your spam program is storing the pre-processed email.
What you’re being asked for is the information that spam inspector set up, so that we can figure out how to put ANOTHER program (avast) into the queue of programs that will process your email.
OK, so where do you find that information…
If you’re using Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu and select Accounts. Make sure the “Mail” tab is highlighted, and select one of your email accounts. Then, click on the Properties button, and then select the Servers tab.
From this page, you must tell us what is in the “Incoming Mail”, “Outgoing Mail”, and “Account Name” boxes. Don’t tell us the password. We are only trying to help you configure it for yourself.
Also, you don’t have to give the exact username (in fact, you shouldn’t). Just report something like:
username@domain.com#pop.domain.com
That should be enough detail for someone to help you out.
Good luck! 
Thanks JE, you write it all in understandable language for larchmage… I hope. Wellcome to forums: seems you can give us a lot of help 8)
Thanks JE…
it changed my mail server to 127.0.0.1
and my user name: username.
Thats for incoming, my outgoing SMTP, remains unchanged
Does that help any?
Dale ???
Technical…
the help you have given me and countless others has been grand. And I deeply appreciate the extra effort you made on helping me!
cojo
mail server (pop or inbound): 127.0.0.1 ok
user name: username. no, you need something like this: username#
outgoing SMTP remains unchanged ok if you do not want to scan your sent messages If you want to scan them:
mail server (smtp or outbound): 127.0.0.1 ok
Your password…
Check the option for authentication. A new window will open:
Fill this way:
user name: #
password: let it blank or put the same of the pop server
Hope this help… I’m trying to be simple as I could. 8)
However, this doesn’t seem to me to answer the question of how to insert spam inspector into the pop mail chain. I currently use K9 for spam detection (I think it’s good) in this way: OE - K9 - Avast - pop server but this is possible because K9 listens on localhost (127.0.0.1) port 9999 or anything you specify. The problem as I see it with spam inspector (or it was when I tried it out) is that it seems to only listen on port 110 whilst Avast also listens on 110. If spam inspector can be made to listen on a different port, presumably then the parameters put into OE just have to ensure that they direct it to spam inspector and thence to Avast and on to the pop server.
I don’t think I’ve made this very clear, so here’s what I do to get K9 and Avast to work together and something similar would presumably be used if substituting spam inspector for K9.
In OE
The format using the “/” characters is for K9’s benefit (which expects //.
K9 then passes the information myaccountname#mypopserver to port 110 on 127.0.0.1 which is where Avast! is listening.
It works!
Hope this helps.
Wilf, you find the way.
This:
[b]In OE
The format using the “/” characters is for K9’s benefit (which expects //.
K9 then passes the information myaccountname#mypopserver to port 110 on 127.0.0.1 which is where Avast! is listening.[/b]
is exactly what I have asked you at the first time. Sorry for not making myself clear. Wellcome to forums.
Hi
I have had a similar problem. Installing Spam Inspector I have received a message from Avast that says "Another program (Spam Inspector!) has taken the port 110 (where Avast control The POP messages) It says what to do about it but start opening the HELP file and I can’t open it, When I try the program freeze!! Anybody knows what to do in this case?
Thanks and I hope you have understood because I don’t speak english very well. Sorry for that
It’s very important to receive a solution because I am with out protection now, I can not open my Outlook Express because Avast it’s not protecting the incoming messages!!
Peruvian
Hi again
Now I know why the Help file doesn’t works, because there is not a Help file because I have a spanish version!!! 
I have understood everything in the previous message excepting the port 9999…where is it? or where it goes?
Sorry guys buy I am a rookie!!!
Thanks for your understanding
peruvian…we all start somewhere
there is no shame in being a rookie…besides, it gives the experts a chance to exercise their knowledge and challenges them ;D
and I did alot of that when I first came to the forums (and still do!)
you’ll be fine…stick with us and help is always available.
cojo
Peruvian,
port 9999 is just the port that K9 uses by default to listen on localhost (127.0.0.1) for information to be passed to it by outlook express. In K9 you can choose any port for it to listen on, but 9999 is its default value. In OE, you substitute 9999 for 110 in the account properties Advanced tab so that OE can pass the information on to K9. K9 in turn then passes the account and pop server information on to Avast via port 110 (in OE the account name was set to 127.0.0.1/110/popaccountname#popserver so K9 knows what to pass on to Avast).
Hope this helps,
Wilf
OK… I will try that… try a few different methods and let you know the results… I think I might be looking at things a little backwards… we’ll see :D:D:D
Ok my friends…
It’s too much for me. I was wondering where the 9999 port it is or goes and I can understand what Will says, buy now, we have another problem…what it is K9???
You know? I have unistalled Spam Inspector and that’s it!
It’s very difficult for me because you are talking about things that I don’t know. I can configure my Outlook but when you say 127.0.0.1…what is that? I don’t see numbers in my configuration, just names or addresses…Ok, but Spam Inspector has been unistalled and Avast it’s working. Thanks a lot to all of you for your concern, you are great people and I thank to everybody!!
God bless you all!!
Jaime (Peruvian) from Lima, Perú
Hi again
Never has been better posted a definition next to my nickname, “I am a Llama” I am peruvian and I know what a Llama is…they live here…and I really am!!
I had some trouble getting Spam Inspector & Avast to work together, but I finally figured it out. Below is the setup I used.
Outlook Express setup for Spam Inspector & Avast antivirus.
Here’s an example email address and mail servers:
Email address: johnsmith@earthlink.net
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop3.earthlink.net
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.earthlink.net
In Outlook Express
Click ‘tools’ menu.
Click ‘Accounts’
Click ‘Properties’
Click ‘Servers’ Tab
Incoming mail (POP3): 127.0.0.1
Outgoing mail (SMTP): 127.0.0.1
Incoming Mail Server
Account name: johnsmith#pop3.earthlink.net:127.0.0.1:120
Password:*******
Outgoing Mail Server
Check – ‘My server requires authentication’
Click ‘Settings’
Check – ‘Log on using’
Account name: johnsmith#smtp.earthlink.net
Password:*******
Click ‘OK’
Click ‘Advanced’ Tab
Server Port Numbers
Outgoing mail (SMTP): 25
Incoming mail (POP3): 110
(These are usually the default port numbers and may already be set to these)
Click ‘OK’
Then click ‘Close’ to get out of internet accounts box.
SETTINGS FOR AVAST4.INI FILE
Mailscanner section
[Mailscanner]
DefaultPopServer=pop3.earthlink.net
DefaultSmtpServer=smtp.earthlink.net
SmtpListen=127.0.0.1:25
PopListen=127.0.0.1:120
ShowTrayIcon=1
UseDefaultSmtp=0
AutoSetProtection=0
Log=1
PassThrough=0
Trust=127.0.0.1
Spam Inspector is filtering the spam with this setup. I’ve also checked the headers of my emails and they are being scanned inbound & outbound by Avast.
This should do the trick for you.