MikeBDda - thanks for the point. Don’t get me wrong - avast! works very well with Eudora and sets itself up beautifully. The problem I am referring to only applies if you are working different “persona” which require different SMTP servers and different POP servers where the login are different. Because Eudora (and Outlook and Outlook Express - trust me, I tried them) don’t allow you to put discreet login details for each persona/account (i.e. for each account, four separate groups of information - SMTP server, POP server, SMTP login, POP login), avast! can’t be sent the information in the login#account@ strings. Therefore, if 127.0.0.1 is used as SMTP, avast! attempts to do something the SMTP server will reject. NOT avast!‘s fault really, although I think it COULD be done by allowing all this information to be put into the manual configuration sequence (now WHERE is that WISHLIST and how on earth to set out the details of this? :’( Any moderator help iron this out so that we can get it on the wishlist?)

Thanks JEDs - I WILL upgrade Eudora (download completed) when I get a space. In the meantime, I am simply avoiding avast! for outgoing emails from the remote domain and have a duplicate persona for incoming mail (as I said - have to change the persona if I reply until I find a way round this).

One thing I am trying to avoid is to have an email address in the headers which is on a different domain. Hence avoiding the Relay. But I will try it and test to see how it goes.

Btw - not lazy or ignorant - just a “sensible utilization of metaphysical resources and time” as the man said lol ::slight_smile: