Avast and Thunderbird? I apologize for starting another thread over this, I’ve seen others, but they didn’t fully answer my question.
I know Avast works with Thunderbird, I had to go into the protection center and enable the virus confirmation attachment to the emails, I like seeing this. This tells me that its working, and the email was scanned.
Heres what im speculating. Is avast really scanning the emails , or is it just putting this virus confirmation attachment on there, because I told it to.
Now I can look under last scans, and it shows that the email was scanned, but going by the program layout, it looks as Avast was built around outlook, and not Thunderbird, so thats why I’m concerned.
Also I thought that if you had a ssl connection for incoming and out going emails, avast could not scan them, this is another thing thats happening, and its why im speculating that it may not really be scanning them.
avast scans all email regardless if you ask for the insertion of clean note, there will be an email icon in the system tray and the avast ‘a’ icon will rotate when scanning. You can also check the email headers because they will indicate that it has been scanned, that is there even if you don’t insert a clean note into the email (something which I feel is of little value)
avast isn’t built around Outlook, the Outlook/Exchange provider is for MS Outlook not express and if you don’t have ms outlook that provider would normally be terminated. The Internet Mail provider is the one that supports pop3 email clients like thunderbird, outlook express, etc.
K, thanks, yeah I did some test, took a .exe thats legit that avast recognizes as a trojan, and sent it to me, from another computer so yeah I’m satisfied now.
The reason I was feeling that it was built around outlook/exchanfe and all is because its under options on the protection control
avast is not built around any email client. avast does not have a clue what email client you use, it cannot tell the difference between Outlook Express and Thunderbird.
avast is built around the fact that every email client must follow the same set of rules (the POP3 protocol) to receive messages and the SMTP protocol to send messages. avast intercepts the actions that all email clients have to do to receive and send mail not the mail clients themselves.
I guess thepcnerd meant that the Outlook plug-in. Yes, it can work around SSL connections. If you like Avast to check mails from SSL connections to other mail applications, you need to use stunnel. In that case, please take advantage of search function.
