I have found where to insert the message in incoming emails but can’t find where to insert message in outgoing email. Always thought this was a good advertisement for Avast. Use Thunderbird email client with gmail. Using the new Avast 5.
there’s only one setting, and once ticked, you should get a note in both incoming and outgoing messages. If you don’t get it in outgoing messages, check the source after sending, and see if avast scanned it, which I doubt in your case. So see first if the mail shield is actually set to scan outgoing mails.
My settings are just like yours. I get the message in incoming but not outgoing…
did you check with message source in Thunderbird on a sent mail that this sent mail was really scanned? it should contain this:
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100120-0, 01/20/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
No, it doesn’t. So how do I set it up to scan outgoing. I have the box checked…
set your smtp port in Thunderbird to 587, and no ssl
Thank you. That fixed my gmail accounts in TBird. But I have a Yahoo account set up with the web extension and it wont scan that one. Can you offer any help with that? Thanks again…
I have no idea of what protocol you use for Yahoo, is that in Thunderbird too?
Yes, it is in Thunderbird. I had to install 2 extensions for it to work. In avast 4.x it would scan Yahoo but not gmail and now it is the opposite…
OK so what’s the protocol, POP or IMAP ? does it require ssl or not ?
It is POP and TLS if required
so the settings in Thunderbird should be the same as in Gmail: 110 for POP (no ssl) and 25 or 587 for SMTP, again no ssl. Avast will detect this and recreate the required ssl connections automatically. If that still doesn’t work, go check in the mail scanner advanced settings, you can change the behavior there: your yahoo account must have been detected, look at the ports for yahoo: it should be 995(POP) and 465 or 587 for SMTP. That’s in the SSL accounts tab, see that ssl is set for POP, also ssl for 465/SMTP, or TLS if it’s 587/SMTP.
If the extension works like a local proxy, you also need to uncheck ‘Ignore local communication’ in Settings/Troubleshooting/Redirect Settings/Mail.
yeah this was needed in Avast 4, when running Thunderbird through Stunnel to get Gmail scanned, but the “ignore local communication” setting in V5 has no effect. I left the default (checked) when obviously it should be unchecked, and that doesn’t change anything.
You said if “the extension” works like a local proxy, but avast email scanner itself is also a local proxy now, rerouting from localhost to a mail server.