I just downloaded Avast AV today because I was having some problems with my emails being downloaded and scanned into my OE inbox. I’ve had the similar problem with my other AV software but it was the attachments not being scanned. So basically what I need to know since it is two accounts, and they are both Gmail, what is it that I need to do to get the Avast Email scanner working properly?
I hope that I’ve explained it ok, I might need to reword it again.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Take a look here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10428.0 to see how to set up secure email with avast!.
Since SSL/TLS e-mail is encrypted and decrypted in the client, external virus scanners (including avast!) can’t read or scan it.
The solution is to pass e-mail in and out un-encrypted from your client (Outlook Express, Thunderbird, …) to a proxy program (Stunnel) that does the actual ssl or tls encryption/decryption of the pop3/smtp e-mail and communicates directly with the ISP server on the appropriate ports. Another drivers (OpenSSL) are need as a library of encryption/decryption routines.
Stunnel now comes as an installer which installs Open SSL and Stunnel so now you just have to download the installer version from here http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html
Advanced configuration: please refer to this post http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=8775.msg97026#msg97026
Hope it helps 8)