Checking mail but sometimes not stamping

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Originally posted in Avast 4 Home/Pro forum by mistake…

WinXP-SP2, Outlook Express, Avastv4.5

Just occasionally I get mail that Avast doesn’t mark as ‘checked’. If I check the properties and look at the headers I can see that Avast is actually checking it but the ‘stamp’ isn’t appended to the email.
I think it happens with Hotmail and occasionally mail from other sources.
It’s not so much a problem - I know the mail’s being scanned - I’m just curious.
Can anybody explain?

Love the program BTW!

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I’m not sure if I answered this in other thread.
Maybe Hotmail won’t work as a common email account.
Anyway, could have problems on HTML interpretation to add the notes.
Does this happens both in HTML and TXT messages?

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Well - I’m not sure how to tell the difference!
Anyway - here’s one that is marked clean in the header but didn’t get stamped.
Does it offer any clues?
(The xxxxx’s are mine)!

From:Return-Path: Dillardmiya@bluemail.dk
Received: from mk-rewrite-1.mail.uk.tiscali.co (212.74.114.131) by mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com (7.1.016.19)
id 417D8AC7001047F2 for xxxxx@screaming.net; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:28:46 +0100
Received: from ham-on55-129.dial.allstream.net ([142.154.68.161]:1307)
by mk-rewrite-1.mail.uk.tiscali.co with smtp (Exim 4.30)
id 1CNbP3-0003TO-M2
for xxxx@xxxxxxx.screaming.net; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:23:10 +0100
Received: from 63.132.186.155 by 142.154.68.161; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:22:39 -0700
Message-ID: LERVAWBLELXTVCHWUATRDFC@yourmail.com.au
From: “Bridgette Mendez” Dillardmiya@bluemail.dk
Reply-To: “Bridgette Mendez” Dillardmiya@bluemail.dk
To: xxxx@xxxxxxx.screaming.net
Subject: Spyware Alert - september 29th [Spam][98.0%]
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:21:39 -0500
X-Mailer: AOL 8.0 for Windows US sub 840
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=“–9-801676278-8267975267=:92218”
X-Priority: 5
X-MSMail-Priority: Low
X-IP:236.170.27.249
----9-801676278-8267975267=:92218
Content-Type: text/html;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0444-3, 29/10/2004), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

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Hi there!

How does one tell if the email scanner of Avast is working or not? How does one tell if the stamp for scanning email online is working besides the stamp it makes when scanning?

I notice my system isn’t working correctly stamping “pop” email. I have juno and the stamp isn’t working at all when I do a test.

How I fix this situation

system is a 233mx, with 64 meg of ram…

Avast is a very nice program! thanks… I had this program years ago but for some reason I took it off.

thanks

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Do you have 4.5 beta installed? If not I suggest you upgrade.
Checking the mail scanner is easy. Send yourself a mail and look at the header of the mail to see if Avast scanned it, or send yourself the eicar test file.

6

Hi Eddy

Yes I have checked the headers of the juno emails I receive… I even have checked other ISP emails and they do not have stamps either.

Have to reboot this system again…I made changes once again…

7

Can you try to repair your installation?
Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > avast! antivirus > Remove
Then choose Repair function in the popup window (Repair).

8

Hi there!

I did the ‘repair’ and it went through the steps and each stamp came up if I remember. ALthough it didn’t say it fixed anything which it didn’t say it either. The stamp is not working still. I have tried it several times, thru juno. I have aol also, but rarely use aol. Aol is not used for email. I trying to get the stamp to work through juno first.

this is what comes up:

Return-Path: xxxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com
Received: from mx17.nyc.untd.com (mx17.nyc.untd.com [10.140.24.77])
by maildeliver08.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABA2L6XNAY3EBAA
for xxxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com (sender xxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com);
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:18:04 -0800 (PDT)
Received: from m23.nyc.untd.com (m23.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.86])
by mx17.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABA2L6XNATES3QS
for xxxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com (sender xxxxxxxxxx@juno.com);
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:18:04 -0800 (PDT)
Received: from m23.nyc.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by m23.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABA2L6VVACKMMHS
for xxxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com (sender xxxxxxxxxx@juno.com);
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:17:07 -0800 (PDT)
X-UNTD-OriginStamp: sacPDm9mcz9xmDM5bFiDcEo34a7P2I1D386LWSU50avO7M6dcs4U1w==
Received: (from xxxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com)
by m23.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id KBBBFZE4; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:16:17 PST
To: xxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:15:22 -0600
Subject: test
Message-ID: 20041031.171524.-453839.2.xxxxxxxxxx@juno.com
X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.33
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
From: xxxxxxxxxxx@juno.com
X-ContentStamp: 2:1:58789757
X-MAIL-INFO:49cb176a4f6fcaea8bce6b0f5f9e4ef3ae8ea7ebe77a9e23ef379bcf337ecfbbbb339f7e9f9f8f1f0e0a83dadfaa1adbfa1a3a3adb63fa63

I am using EMC spam/filter program that works between juno/aol/ and avast. I have windows 98se with 64 meg of ram. It seems EMC is checked by Avast! which is kewl!! the emails are scanned it looks like yet things are working well with that. I need to test to see if Avast will check when there is a file there at EMC spam program and wether it gets rid of virus yet. I used eirac with avast and that worked great. Stopped things and put into chest. I not able to get the stamp notifications still to work at all! Maybe it would work if I was using Outlook express but I don’t use it.

I know I have been scanned before thru the servers or Aol and Juno. My firewall program has noticed this.

In fact I know that is how alot of vbs viruses get through…through their servers. Hardly any protection on their servers! something! A computer isn’t really a server in the first place. 127, 0, 0,1 localhost used in host file and used with IE and My computer really outta not be setup this way. Microsoft is not one of the best OS there is. My opinion. then again it was just a starting OS. Maybe someone can make an OS that will take in all designing of how a OS shall work.

So, anyone can help me that be great. Eddy thanks for your help. I know thru Avant virus program itself recognizes now EMC and the emails filtered thru it. Can you help me setup Juno in Avant as extra protection? I have a few accounts for right for Juno. Maybe someone else can help. I’ve done all I can!!

thanks…

oh I have one more log to show…it is the log for email server…

10/31/04 16:31:14: Started, Log = 1(0x00000001)
10/31/04 16:31:14: Build 4.5.498
10/31/04 16:31:14: Using Microsoft wsock32.dll, ver2.2, 32bit of Apr 22 1999, at 20:29:32.
10/31/04 16:31:23: ExclusiveAddr settings changed 0(0x00000000)
10/31/04 16:31:23: POP Start settings changed: 1(0x00000001)
10/31/04 16:31:23: POP Default server settings changed: pop.juno.com 110
10/31/04 16:31:23: POP Listen settings changed: 127.0.0.1 110
10/31/04 16:31:24: POP setsockopt(SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE) error 10042(0x0000273A)
10/31/04 16:31:24: SMTP Start settings changed: 1(0x00000001)
10/31/04 16:31:24: SMTP Default server settings changed: #smtp.juno.com 25
10/31/04 16:31:24: SMTP Listen settings changed: 127.0.0.1 25
10/31/04 16:31:24: SMTP setsockopt(SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE) error 10042(0x0000273A)
10/31/04 16:31:24: IMAP Start settings changed: 1(0x00000001)
10/31/04 16:31:24: IMAP Default server settings changed: imap.aol.com 143
10/31/04 16:31:24: IMAP Listen settings changed: 127.0.0.1 143
10/31/04 16:31:24: IMAP setsockopt(SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE) error 10042(0x0000273A)

the mailscanner in Avast.ini says this:

[MailScanner]
DefaultPopServer=pop.juno.com
DefaultSmtpServer=#smtp.juno.com
DefaultImapServer=imap.aol.com
ShowTrayIcon=1
UseDefaultSmtp=0
AutoSetProtection=1

p.s. I bet I have to remove the info in mailscanner…

9

Hi there

well after making my own changes to avast.ini
and EMC (spam ) program the avast antivirus isn’t
scanning emails for EMC

in EMC says port is 587…yet I know that is alright…

10

Are the messages signed with an X.509 certificate? That stops it stamping - btoh in and out. Have you just updated the program? If so, try unticking the setting to stamp the mail, click “OK” then go back and re-tick it - that worked here.

11

Hi there!

where are the x.509 stamp located? where can one find the info on that? Please look at the information I gave above for the header information for any stamp info??

laterzzz

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Bigbassfish, you asked me help here but… I don’t know about EMC (spam program). What can I say is that the new mail detection that works automatically. Please, set up your email account just as avast does not exists. It will detect the pop3/smpt/imap ports and scan your messages. :wink:

Better is exactly what is supposed to to by the EMC help files.

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I’m not very technical, and headers are largely a mystery to me so I can’t tell from the message you posted - the MIME reference suggests it could be. If it is signed it should be obvious when you read the message with your email program - it will be most likely be shown by a display icon. In Outlook it’s on the bar over the preview screen - same in Thunderbird.