I found the thread on setting up email alerts. Very straightforward.
Now I need to expand that to allow me to send an alert to port 587 over SSL/TLS.
In the admin section for email configuration, I see where I can set ‘Encrypted’ to True. I’m looking for the same feature in the ‘Group-Expert settings’ config.
The reason for this: when my users roam out of the network, I still want them to send in alerts of virus detection. Most ISP block port 25. Thus I need to use 587 to get around that issue as well as forcing encrypted transmission (just in case they are on public wifi).
I am trying to use
avastcfg://avast5/Communication/SMTPUserName
avastcfg://avast5/Communication/SMTPUserPassword
avastcfg://avast5/Communication/SMTPAuth Tried 1,2,3 hoping one of these would be for encryption)
I have yet to get this working… Anyone else have success?
Can you elaborate on why the password is ‘tricky’? Is it hashed or something? I would have assumed that since this field can be edited by an admin, the admin would just provide the password for the account… no?
Checking a wireshark trace on the client after EICAR was detected shows the attempt to send mail, however, the server responds with ‘client not authenticated’.
Also, I have no avast5.ini on my client systems. I don’t see where this could be set manually anyway. Could you provide a walkthrough.
While using the name and password method on port 587, I discovered that doing an AVAST ‘repair’ solved all my e-mail alert issues. I can offer no explanation as to why, but now it works the way I expected it to work in the first place. Both the AVAST test as well as an EICAR virus test work fine.