Integration with PuTTY secure connection?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I guess I regard myself as an intermediate experienced user of Avast! with reasonable understanding of its configuration, including the port redirection tricks involved in daisy-chaining Avast!-Spamihilator-OutlookExpress.

This one I cannot resolve.
I am attempting to configure Avast! to also work in combination with the PuTTY secure connection with the office mail server.

So, the daisy-chain should be as follows:
IMAP-Server - PuTTY - Avast! - OE

Details:
IMAP server uses ports 25 and 143
PuTTY redirects these ports to localhost:26 and localhost:144

If I setup my e-mail account on Outlook Express to use localhost:26 and localhost:144 as outgoing SMTP and incoming IMAP respectively, then the e-mail connection works, but Avast is not yet included in the chain.

I have tried using the Mail Protection Wizard in both automatic and manual mode, but nothing happens.
The mail-account settings are not changed and Avast! appears to be not functioning during e-mail download (no animated icon).

What settings do I need to make to get Avast! in between PuTTY and OE?

Stephan

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Try the updated wizard: http://www2.asw.cz/~peterka/4.1.418/ashPopWz_2.exe
(Save it to Avast4 folder and start from there.)

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Perfect!
That did the trick.

Avast! is now nicely in between my PuTTY SSL server and OE
Changes it made in the OE mail-account:

  • IMAP server: 127.0.0.1
  • SMTP server: 127.0.0.1
  • account name: my-login-name#localhost:144
  • SMTP port: 25
  • IMAP port: 143

I guess somewhere in Avast.ini a connection is made between OE port 25 and the PuTTY port 26.

I performed test for both incoming and outgoing mails by inserting the Avast notification and all works fine.

Thanks Vojtech,

Stephan