system
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Hi,
I have around 5-6 imap accounts on Thunderbird and just now I have noticed that that Avast provides incoming mail protection to all of them but one. And the one imap account it is not protecting is not even an SSL account and I connect to it without SSL. Strangely when I check that account via Outlook Express then Avast scans the incoming e-mail. I am guessing Avast and Thunderbird are doing something strange.
Specs:
Win XP Home edition SP1
Avast 4.5.549
Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)
Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1123
RejZoR
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Hm,it should work right away ???
Anyway,open On-Access panel,select Internet Mail provider and click Customize. Now select IMAP tab. Check if everything necessary is enabled.
Also enable tags to mark both incomin and outgoing mail.
So you’ll see if the mail was processed by avast!. You can turn this off later if you don’t want it.
system
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The settings for scanning inbound e-mail and inserting a clean note are enabled. Doesn’t make any difference.
RejZoR
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You don’t get any added tags in the mails (Scanned by avast! VPS bla bla) ?
Is your IMAP service using non-standard port (port 143 is default).
Eddy
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imap on TB needs you to change something in one of the TB files, as is explained in one of the threads here on this board. Use the search option to find it.
This is not a problem of Avast but of the way TB is using/handling imap emails.
system
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I think you talk about this thread :
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=8967;start=15
Settings how thunderbird downloads mails with IMAP.
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Peter
system
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for RejZoR
You don't get any added tags in the mails (Scanned by avast! VPS bla bla) ?
Is your IMAP service using non-standard port (port 143 is default).
Nope, not in this particular e-mail account. For all other accounts I get the clean note inserted. This imap account is also using the standard port 143
for peterfu
I think you talk about this thread :
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=8967;start=15
Settings how thunderbird downloads mails with IMAP.
Did what was said there by adding a user.js file to my profile directory. No Cigar.
I have also posted this on the Thunderbird forum but no responses there yet.
Interesting news though. When I put the mouse over the small magnifying glass tray icon of the avast mail scanner I get a list of IP addressed that it is connected to (I guess). When I do a reverse DNS lookup with one of these IP addresses I get the mail server of this account which is troubling me. The incoming mail server I have specified is imap.isp.com while when I do the reverse DNS lookup I get mail.isp.com. I changed the incoming mail server in Thunderbird to mail.isp.com from imap.isp.com but it did not help.
So it seems the mail scanner is connected to the imap server but it is not scanning the messages when I use Thunderbird to download them and maddeninly enough only for this e-mail account and not for the other imap accounts I have and even more maddeningly works when I use OE.
Now what should I do?
Eddy
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Did what was said there by adding a user.js file to my profile directory
Strange, it is my understanding it is there by default. Perhaps you can contact that person who wrote it and ask.
system
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The changes should be done in the mailnews.js file, which contains all the behaviour of thunderbird in general and not in the user.js file. The mailnews.js file should be there, the user.js file is not there in a fresh thunderbird installation.
hmmm, anyway this is strange because only one account is not working.
Does anybody know if there is a limit of open IMAP sessions in avast ?
Because thunderbird has a different handling of IMAP as OE has. Thunderbird keeps IMAP connections open (up to 5) and sends a command to the server to push the information about new arrived e-mails - i don’t remember exactly what exactly it was but there was/is an issue with that if you have more than 5 accounts - I thinkI have seen this in bugzilla.
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Peter
system
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Actually no. You have to create user.js to save default preference values for a particular profile. It is talked about in greater detail here
http://www.mozilla.org/catalog/end-user/customizing/briefprefs.html
system
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Well thats the way recommended in mozilla as I have pointed out to Eddy. And the user.js file is not removed during uninstallation since it is in the profiles and is also not overwritten during reinstallation or upgrade.
hmmm, anyway this is strange because only one account is not working.
Does anybody know if there is a limit of open IMAP sessions in avast ?
Because thunderbird has a different handling of IMAP as OE has. Thunderbird keeps IMAP connections open (up to 5) and sends a command to the server to push the information about new arrived e-mails - i don’t remember exactly what exactly it was but there was/is an issue with that if you have more than 5 accounts - I thinkI have seen this in bugzilla.
About the 5 open connections are you talking about the maximum number of server connections to cache? I think that is a specific preference for each imap account. I did change that number to 7 but even that did not help.
system
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yuggy, I found thunderbird was doing wrong things with everything, well that is an exageration, scuse spelling, I tried it but oh wow, it a no go area for this mouse, I had been using Incredimail for the past 3years, but have got rid of it too many spies in it, so now only use outlook Express and creat my own stationay, with pretty things, like mice 
system
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No, I’m talking about the IMAP IDLE command, which allows the server to inform the IMAP client about new arrived mails - Sorry, I don’t find it anymore in detail >:(
Another question : have You tried thunderbird with only this one account ?
br
Peter
PS : i stepped back to OE after a 2 day trial with thunderbird, cause I didn’t like the IMAP handling of thunderbird - manual configuration in the various .js files, problems with purge (thunderbird calls it “compact folder”),offline support.