I recently began using avast! 4.6 Pro and love it. I also recently switched POP3 mail providers for several reasons, one of which being the availability of SSL with my new provider. I cannot get the avast! mail provider to scan my incoming mail if I use the SSL server. I set my mail client (Thunderbird) as follows: server = secure.runbox.com, port = 995, “use secure connection (ssl)” = checked. If I leave my avast! settings alone, I download mail fine, but it is not scanned by the avast! mail provider as evidenced by the log. If I change the pop3 redirect port in the avast! mail provider from 110 to 995, when I attempt to download mail, it just hangs until it times out. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Antiviruses cannot scan secure connections. You can however use MS Outlook with avast! MS Outlook\Exchange provider to scan secure connected mails.
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Since SSL/TLS e-mail is encrypted and decrypted in the client, external virus scanners (including avast!) can’t read or scan it.
The solution is to pass e-mail in and out un-encrypted from your client (Outlook Express, Thunderbird, …) to a proxy program (Stunnel) that does the actual ssl or tls encryption/decryption of the pop3/smtp e-mail and communicates directly with the ISP server on the appropriate ports. Another drivers (OpenSSL) are need as a library of encryption/decryption routines.