The scanned count always shows 0… help!
You shouldn’t need to configure it for use with Thunderbird depending on your OS and firewall.
What is your Operating System and firewall ?
Do you use a proxy with your ISP connection ?
Do you use secure email, avast doesn’t/can’t scan that ?
Have you checked the avast help file (Setting Up Mail Protection, Manual Setting of Mail protection if required) or done a forums search for Thunderbird and avast ?
You should be using the Internet Mail provider.
You don’t need Outlook/Exchange plug-in enabled unless you are using MS Outlook not express.
well im using gmail (use secure connection: SSL). does that count?
WinXP
That counts so avast can’t scan that directly as it is encrypted and would defeat the point of having secure email if it could be accessed by an outside program. With XP the Internet Mail setting is transparent for those accounts not using SSL. avast’s Internet Mail only monitors the standard email ports 25, 110, 119, 143.
You can use a third party piece of software ‘STunnel’ to act as a go between so avast can scan it before it is encrypted.
A little light reading for you:
Gmail and Avast Providers
Solution: Using GMail with Avast and a SPAM filter
Redirecting multiple SSL accounts
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
Secure connection with a Spam filter and avast!
How to handle the secure connection with a SPAM filter and avast!
If you do not feel like the challenge of STunnel (I don’t) then there is a Thunderbird extension for Gmail (handles Hotmail and Yahoo just as well). There is at least one other third party program that is probably less challenging than STunnel that will handle GMail easily.
If you need more info just advise.
Which is that THIRD PARTY PROGRAM ?
I would also like someone learned in the forum to clarify the following:
Gmail, like many other web based mail clients have an inbuilt virus checking. When POP access is enabled for offline browsing and messages are downloaded , are these mails already not checked in Gmail’s server ?
Is it again necessary to get the messaged scanned ?
Many, as it is, are of the opinion that email scanning is useless as these are normanlly scanned on access.
The third party program is FreePops which is independent of mail client.
The Thunderbird specific extensions:
As noted here in the forums Google reports that attachments are scanned - it appears that the message body is probably not. Safest to err on the side of caution. The STunnel solution and both of these above can be used in conjunction with avast to scan the POP3 stream as it enters the mail client.
With all of them since the POP3 source is internal to your system it is essential in the “Redirect” tab of the avast Internet Mail Scanner to uncheck the “Ignore local communications” box.