Hi, I’ve just installed Avast Home 4.6. My email server doesn’t use SMTP Port 25 but Port 1025 (POP is 110). Does this mean my emails won’t be scanned? I note the Avast icon doesn’t rotate when I send or receive emails and the Avast messages aren’t added to my email when sending or receiving. Do I therefore have no protection, or am I relying on the more general protection offered by Avast?
Welcome to the avast forum.
What operating system are you using (the avast email protection is slightly different in Win98/ME systems from WinNT/2K/XP systems)?
You can extend the outbound SMTP ports being scanned by avast by selecting the Internet Mail Scanner > Customize > Redirect tab > the “SMTP” box should show:
25
To add additional ports to be scanned change it to show:
25, 1025
Then avast will scan SMTP mail being sent on either of those ports.
Thanks for replying.
I’m using XP Pro + SP2 with Opera as my browser/email client. However I get the same effect with Thunderbird.
I’ll try extending the Ports as you suggest but my POP messages are also missing the ‘message’.
I’ll report back.
Sorry if the question seems unnecessary but can I assume that you have checked the boxes in the Internet Mail provider saying that you want the “messages” added for POP and for SMTP?
Tried adding additional ports to the SMTP and it works on outgoing mail. It now contains the ‘clean message’ and the icon rotates.
However my incoming POP traffic on Port 110 doesn’t contain a message or rotate the icon.
However I am running some Spam Filter software that places itself in the email flow as ‘local host’. I suspect that may be the problem as Avast isn’t recognising it as Port 110. Can I add ‘local host’ to the POP port (or even 127.0.0.1)?
And yes the messages are checked!
Let’s try this:
In the Internet Mail provider select Customize > on the Redirect tab uncheck the box “Ignore local communication”.
Does that help with the inbound messages?
Perfect! Now working both ways! I used:
Internet Mail provider select Customize > on the Redirect tab uncheck the box “Ignore local communication”
Another happy customer!
Glad to hear it.