Avast Premium and POP3

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I have the above programme on trial.

I use Thunderbird via POP3 to collect emails. This has worked quite well, until today.

I have not “messed” with any settings, updates or new installs, but suddenly discovered no new emails were being delivered to Thunderbird. I can see all emails on the Server at BT, they just won’t download.

Going through the settings of Avast I decided to uncheck the “Enable Mail Shield” box and – Hey Presto - all my emails now download. This seems counter to what I would expect.

Anyone else had the same experience or, better still, can anyone suggest a remedy please?

Thank you,
IanG

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I Use Thunderbird and I use BT and I haven’t got a problem with it. I have received several emails yesterday without issue.

I take it that you aren’t getting any Error messages displayed ?

Disabling the Mail Shield, this isn’t counter to what I would expect, as the Mail Shield acts as an intermediary so it can scan the email content. If there is an interaction/conflict, disabling the mail shield breaks that interaction/conflict.

See attached image of my thunderbird settings.