There is no difference in the way avast treats OE6 and Thunderbird (in fact avast has not got a clue that you are using either of them).
What kind of account is this you are sending messages on? Is this a regular POP/SMTP account?
What is the port that you are using to connect to the SMTP server (is it port 25?).
Remember that you cannot see the added message in the “Sent” folder because the “clean” message is not added until the whole message is being transmitted out of your system. The “clean” message can only be seen by the person the message is being sent to.
In your account in OE6 you are using SMTP port 25 to send out your emails.
When you set up this account in Thunderbird (I have to guess for some good reason to you) you decided not to use port 25 for SMTP (as you do in OE6) but to use port 587 (and probably TLS as the security option).
You have chosen with Thunderbird to use a secured connection to send your mail. Secured connections cannot be scanned by avast (or any other antivirus product). So avast does not scan the outbound message at all and the “clean” note is not inserted.
If you want the “clean” note inserted by avast you would need to edit the SMTP entry for the account in Thunderbird, set the port to 25 and the security option to “None”.
If you want the mail scanned by avast and you want to use the secure connection there are other options available - but they are a bit more complex to set up. Let us know if you want to do that.
I’ve a doubt about using avast with thunderbird without SSL. I’ve set up the mail client to work with avast throught POP, but the email than I receive don’t show any message.
The message is on a window.
I want to see this window to help you. You can capture (copy) this window using a screenshot application.
Then you post the picture (attach the file) here.
I put a screenshoot of your message. I don’t know if you want the forum message, the “message of infection or not” than I want to show with avast, the notification message that I receive on my email.
I assume you are talking about the insertion of a clean note ?
If so, first I feel this is of limited use as if it is being scanned then a clean note is rather pointless as if the email was infected all hell would break loose. Secondly if there is no alarm then you could assume it is clean. Thirdly I don’t trust clean notes no matter what AV inserts them as there already a number of malicious email which have a ‘this email has been scanned by (insert AV of choice) and is clean.’ So I just don’t see the value other than giving a warm fuzzy feeling in the insertion of a clean note.
If you are downloading the email directly from gmail using Thunderbird and using the SSL ports then avast isn’t able to scan or insert a clean note in secure email. There is an extension that you can download gmail.
Before you check about clean note insertion first you have to confirm that avast is even scanning the email. The avast icon will rotate; there will be activity on the Internet Mail detailed view, Last scanned: and Scanned total: fields; there will be information in the email headers to indicate that it has been scanned, this happens for all scanned email regardless if you have asked for the insertion of a clean note.
Yes, I was asking about a clean note. The provider than I’m using is Yahoo, and I’m using the 110 port (POP), but there is no activity. avast is not scanning the emails, but I don’t know the reason.
Thank you very much, and thank you by your patience.
Yahoo accounts are normally webmail accounts viewed through your browser.
If you are something like a web2mail converter to download your webmail to your inbox then I believe that may use a different protocol (not pop3) and as such may not be scanned.
So is your Yahoo account a POP3 account (which you normally have to pay for) or is it a webmail account that is downloaded with something like ypopper ?
That is a mystery as it should be treated as normal, if it worked under OE6 it should work under thunderbird, If you still have OE check it still works in OE and is scanned by avast ?
If it does ensure all settings are the same in thunderbird.
What ports are used to connect to yahoo pop3 ?
If they are not 110 (or it insists on SSL/TLS connection) then avast won’t scan them as that is the port it monitors.
I’m at a loss as there doesn’t seem to be anything that should get in the way of avast scanning your email.
I’m also a little confused also as in your original post you said you wanted to use secure connections.
So I’m not sure what it is that is required, or even if you need to have mentioned secure at all, as it doesn’t appear to have anything to do with this problem ?