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I have been using avast for about two weeks with no probelms. This weekend I encountered this “buffer overrun” twice. Each time after trying a “restart” on avast in “services” (winxp) with no success I found that I had to follow the same procedures as ariaaudio and bypass avast to get the messages downloaded.
One additional note: I am using two “chained” mail proxies: 1. the avast Internet Mail, and 2. Spampal. This combination has worked very well for almost 6,000 mails since April 8 this year. The order I have configured the proxies to process mail is the following:
Thunderbird —> Spampal —> avast! -----> pop3 server
(avast! is set to insert "clean: status on all incoming mail)
Incoming mail from the pop3 server is processed first by avast1 and then by spampal. This scenario has worked well so far, but the buffer overrun just started showing up yesterday (since the “push” update on 04/16/04).
I have not found any attachments in the problem group of emails that might have helped find this problem.