Is Mozilla Thunderbird supported?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I have installed and used avast! Home for about two weeks. It is a very good anti-virus application. Credits must go to the avast! team.

Here I have a simple question: Is Mozilla Thunderbird supported by the email protection of avast! Home?

Am using: Windows 98 (NOT second edition), avast! Home (4.6.603), Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6 (built 2808), Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.

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Welcome to avast!
Sure TB is supported. You must run Mail Protection Wizard (the link is under the avast! menu of the Startup menu).
Let us know if you have troubles… :wink:

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Hi,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

It says that avast! changes all my protocol severs to 127.0.0.1 (localhost). But the result is it changed some but not all the mail server settings in my Thunderbird. And I found that the proxy server for connection has not been changed (ie, NO proxy server has been set).

Your further help on this will be appreciated.

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This is how things go here… be used to the speed :wink:

In fact, some installations of TB have trouble with the automatic procedure.
Can you change them manually?
Here are some infomation: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?action=display;board=2;threadid=7913;start=0#msg64228

But, do you use a proxy filter?
Which is the address and port number?

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Thanks again.

I got your points. Yes, I have already changed back the mail server settings to the original ones (i.e., as if avast! does not exist and as specified by my email service providers). Is this what you meant?

About your last point. Nothing in proxy server has been set in TB right now. So, do you suggest that I should set proxy (like localhost 127.0.0.1 port 12080) in TB for the purpose of having emails scanned by avast!?

One more question BTW. I have set proxy (127.0.0.1 port 12080) in Firefox 1.01 and IE 6. Should I choose “use the same proxy for all protocols” (for SSL, FTP, Gopher)?

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On contrary. If you’re using Windows 98 you must configure your servers to 127.0.0.1 in order to scan emails.

Proxy and email scanning are not related each other.
You must set this proxy into avast settings > Update (Basic) > Details > Proxy in order to update avast.
You must set this proxy into your browser settings to connect the internet.
You could disable WebShield until you’re sure your system is working and then we can guide you to setup it.

It won’t harm but depends on your proxy… Why do you use one? Which program is your proxy filter? Generally, ftp could connect without the proxy. Depends…

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Thanks. But can you please provide me info on how to config (manually, I think) TB (and avast! Home)? I tried the steps stated in the avast! help file but couldn’t contact the mail server of my email service provider.

Regards,

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Where are you trying to receive your Mail from?

–lee

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In Windows 98:
For email = user@mail.com

POP3 server = SMTP server = 127.0.0.1

Username= pop.mail.com#user or pop.mail.com#user@mail.com
Password and check remember

Check SMTP authentication.
Username= smtp.mail.com#user or smtp.mail.com#user@mail.com
Password and check remember

Last, ashMaisv.exe must be running to scan the emails.

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Thanks for your help. I got things right (I guess, until some bad emails invade in the future).

Now, I want to config my Gmail (with POP enabled) account in TB. Can you tell me the tips and tricks regarding the setup? Coz I tried but failed.

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Now, I want to config my Gmail (with POP enabled) account in TB. Can you tell me the tips and tricks regarding the setup? Coz I tried but failed.

There is a thread on this very subject, I suggest you try a forum search.

Try this one - http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=9909.0

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Thanks, DavidR. But my machine is running Win 98. Would the settings be different?

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Most probably…
You’ll have to change the pop3 and smtp servers to 127.0.0.1
Username will have the server name added before: pop.mail.com#username (or pop.mail.com#user@mail.com)
You must check for smtp authenticatication and write sptp.mail.com#username (or smtp.mail.com#user@mail.com)

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Thanks. But just want to make it clear. I’m trying to set up a Gmail account in TB.

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Are there any complete guidelines for setting up gmail accounts in TB with avast mail protection running? I made a number of attempts but still failed.

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Well for gmail with thunderbird see here: http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287

And the mail protection wizard in avast should be nearly the same as with the other account.

-lee

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There seem to be some problems. I got this error message:

“Could not connect to 127.0.0.1; the connection was refused.”