I use XP home with SP2 and Outlook Express. After changing to Version 4.5 of Avast I noticed that the email scanner is scanning emails that I preview in Mailwasher Pro. I have 10 email accounts that MWP checks and it did not do this previously. It is not a big deal because it does not download the whole message and script of sorts is not in the preview pane. I only delete and blacklist my spam. I don’t know if this is intentional or not for the new beta version 4.5?
Respectfully,
R.B.
Looks like you just found one of the new futures in Avast 4.5 
avast! is scanning all mail traffic (POP3/SMTP/IMAP). So if program uses such transfer protocol it will be checked by avast!.
I installed Internet Mail provider just to have additional layer of protection (in case if i’m hit by a mass mailing worm),because i use web based mail 
R.B. - it does the same thing in PopTray too.
Cheers !
What do you mean?
Isn’t avast! using Internet Mail provider to scan emails anymore?
Or, like you said, avast! scans the email ports if you’re using web mail?
No,i wanted to say if some mass mailing worm attempts to spread mail via its own SMTP engine using default port it will be most likely blocked by Internet Mail provider.
I am also a Mailwasher user. I like the new version of Avast very much, however I would like to be able to somehow “exclude” Mailwasher from the email scanning process by Avast. Is this possible?
Avast 4.5.498 Still does not retain settings from the avast4.ini file.
Each time there is a program update, all settings are lost.
Please fix this problem it’s getting annoying.
INI file?
I would like to be able to somehow "exclude" Mailwasher from the email scanning process by Avast.Add mailwasher to the exclude list of Avast.
Still does not retain settings from the avast4.ini file.No problems with that here. Working like it should. Could this have to do with certain hardware or installed software or settings?
Same here, no problems at all… and best of all… all providers that I left started before I rebooted my system, are active next time I boot my system.
Hurray !
Great news Vlk !!!
Cheers !
Sorry Vlk
It was my error. Just went thru my settings and they are indeed saved.
Thanks for the fix. ;D
I seem to be having trouble getting the exclusion of Mailwasher to work. I tried entering the path of Mailwasher to the exclude list but that did not work. If anyone has any suggestions, please advise.
What do you mean by ‘did not work’?
Why should you add it to avast! exclusion list?
Eddy has suggested to him to put MailWasher into avast! exclude list, just because petrus2 doesn’t want avast! to checks his mails while they are still in MailWasher…
Reading whole thread would help Technical, hehe
No, this is not the solution… I read that but I did not understand
To avoid scanning into MailWasher avast must be ‘by-passed’ and I don’t think adding it to exclusion list will do that. It’s a matter of configuration. On 4.1 version we could handle with email account settings and I’m quite sure avast! does not scan before MailWasher. Now, the email detection changed. The traffic of pop3/smtp/imap will be scanned by avast. Maybe MailWasher should be at another port than your email account
Not sure if that is going to work, as a test I set one of my accounts in MW pro to use port 111 instead of the 110 and it came up with a connection error.
Because Mailwasher only retrieves a text preview of each email, no attachments, no scripts etc., so it should not be neccessary to scan these previews. I receive a lot of email and it seems to me to be an unnecessay use of system resources and Avast to scan these previews. Mailwasher cannot execute any malicious code or attachments. Why WOULD I want Avast to scan these previews?
Exactly ! Very good point Petrus2… and also, same thing is happening with PopTray (wonderful freeware e-mail notification program). I switched from Mailwasher to PopTray. PopTray have message preview option (plain text only, not HTML… at least not yet), but it won’t open any attachment… I really don’t need avast! to spend some more additional time to check each message when I want to preview them…
Question for Alwil team:
Is it possible somehow to avoid avast! checking in our e-mail notification programs ? I really think that checking in my OE is more than enough. PopTray won’t execute anything anyway…
Cheers !
I too hope there is some way around this double virus checking (spam filter progs plus email client) if you use some form of spam checker (and it would appear that it will effect them all).
One of my email accounts attracts 60-100 spam emails per day and all I want to do is delete them from the server without intervention/virus check as they will never be downloaded to my OE inbox