I have set up my Thunderbird to d/l my Yahoo mail. I have got that to work but how do I get Avast to scan it. I have Thunderbird to not use SSL and I am missing something because I can’t get Avast to scan. I used Yahoo a long time ago and best I can remember Avast would scan it but not Gmail now I don’t have a problem with it scanning Gmail. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
Screenshots, please. Email clients accounts settings plus avast mail shield SSL accounts settings → Additional Options - Attach.
OK, I use thunderbird and I actually don’t have a yahoo.com email account, but I do have a btinternet.com email account and this is effectively handled by yahoo, so it may be the same setting requirements in your case.
See image, my btinternet account doesn’t actually appear in the avastUI, Real-Time Shields, Mail Shield, Expert Settings, SSL Accounts. What does are two occurrences of Yahoo.com:
one for Protocol=POP3 Port=110 and Encryption=None
one for Protocol=SMTP Port=465 and Encryption=SSL.
My thunderbird account settings for the btinternet.com accounts don’t have SSL and no secure username/password, etc. So try the settings I gave above and see if that works for you too.
David, I set mine the way you showed and tried a test email and I have checked to show outbound and inbound message about avast scanning and on the test emails the message doesn’t show.
What message? Please post the screenshots as requested so that we don’t waste more time with such trivial thing.
The message is I have avast set to insert a clean message into incoming and outgoing emails.
My avast settings are like David has in his posting.
Attached is a pic of my Tbird account setting.
David the message wasn’t inserted into a test email to my Yahoo account but the avast logo was spinning around while it was downloading.
Well, that is apparently not useful at all, we need to see the ports - Server Settings and Outgoing Server (SMTP) - not bunch of censored stuff in irrelevant section of the configuration. Sigh. 
And once again - what kind of message are you talking about? ???
The message I am talking about is I have avast selected to post a clean message into outgoing and incoming emails. That was I can check to see that avast is scanning my emails. On the test emails I sent to my Yahoo account and then d/l into Thunderbird the message didn’t show.
My email setting in avast are like those that David showed in his screenshot. Attached is a screenshot of my server settings and in my next post will be the smpt settings. Can’t post both in 1 reply.
Here is the second one
The main thing is that avast is now actually scanning the content. It may well be that it is unable to insert the clean note depending on the Yahoo account.
You can’t view any clean note in the sent emails folder as it doesn’t actually insert it until it is sent. I don’t know if you can insert a clean note into an email if the account is a webmail account and you are using something like thunderbird webmail to retrieve your yahoo web mail.
What are you doing there? Why is your mailserver for both incoming and outgoing set to localhost?!
either the guy is using the old advised Stunnel settings, or he’s got another proxy running, spam filter etc…
edit: or he wants to keep yahoo server secret ??? ;D
No idea really. Well whatever, in setup like this, avast! will NOT scan your mail. Set the account to Yahoo mail servers (POP3, SMTP] same way as Gmail - and not to localhost.
found this http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_webmail_with_your_email_client
Yahoo! typically provides a free POP server if you have a webmail account in a non-USA yahoo domain (for example de.yahoo.com). Otherwise (unless you use one of the alternatives that this article describes) you have to pay for an upgrade to Yahoo! Mail Plus if your ISP doesn't provide you a Yahoo account.
Well yes, and? If you do not have POP3, why are you setting it up? You won’t really receive any Yahoo mail from 127.0.0.1 ??? ??? ???
First off I am a she.
I got the instructions from the Thunderbird forum on how to set up Yahoo - had to add two extensions - WebMail 1.3.1 and WebMail Yahoo 1.4.7. The instructions said to use localhost.
Even though I am not getting the clean message it is probably as David said. I do see the avast icon spinning when something from Yahoo is downloading.
Thanks for your help.
Read what I said in my post, as I suspect that the localhost may have to do with this.
So that is a strong possibility if using the thunderbird webmail add-on (which I don’t so can’t check) as that must import and convert to regular email and why avast can’t insert the clean notes.
You’re welcome.
If you actually check the avastUI, Real-time Shields, Email Shield, there are two fields (see image) that will show if they are in fact being scanned and the emails scanned count would also increase.
Executive resume: Yahoo sucks, get a decent email provider and you won’t have any such problems. :
Good night.
No such problems now are there ;D