Help! Avast preventing downloading of POP3 mail to Thunderbird

[system]

@sded post:19

At this point I would suggest a full uninstall and reinstall of avast!, using the avast! removal tool at http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility . Something is just not working the way it should if the unencrypted mail settings do not just get passed through avast! transparently from TB.

I reinstalled twice. Someone on the Verizon forum suggested I reinstall so I did that once using just the Windows unintstaller. Nothing changed. Then I tried again using the Avast uninstall utility and booting into safe mode. Nothing changed. ???

One other question comes to mind-what are you using for a firewall? Does anything show up as being blocked in the log? Do you have rules to allow AvastSvc.exe TCP out on port 110 for the unencrypted connection?

Already addressed in my second post in this thread. Comodo is not the problem. With just Comodo running, all mail accounts work fine in Thunderbird. With Comodo disabled and all mail filters in Avast running, I get the error message. It clearly is something wrong between the interaction of Avast and that particular mail server.

[Asyn]

I sent this topic to support…
Hope they can help you with this issue…!
Have a nice day,
asyn

[system]

Asyn, thank you so much. Do I need to send them my email address?

[Asyn]

@LGM post:23

Asyn, thank you so much. Do I need to send them my email address?

You’re welcome…!
No, they already know it…
asyn

[system]

BTW, in case this helps, I asked on the Verizon forum who actually owns and manages this server, as there is both “yahoo” and “verizon” in the server name. Someone there said they believe it is actually Yahoo. Maybe this matters?