Mail Shield

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi
As per avast Knowledgebase, I entered my SSL accounts in the Mail Shield and changed the Windows Live Mail (WLM) settings to non-SSL accordingly.

I’ve noticed that my non-SSL accounts have been automatically entered in the Mail Shield although the host names aren’t as I have them in WLM, e.g. “yahoo.com” rather than “mail.btinternet.com”. (Maybe because BT uses Yahoo servers?)

There are two entries in the Mail Shield for “yahoo.com”, one for POP3 and another for SMTP. POP3 has been correctly set to “None” and “110”, but SMTP has been set to “SSL” and “465”. As this is a non-SSL account, SMTP should be port 25, not 465.

I don‘t understand why the Mail Shield has configured my non-SSL account in this way. If I change the SMTP setting to “None” and “25“, the Mail Shield just adds another line with “SSL” and “465” again.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide.

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It does the same in mine, but only for the one related btinternet, guess what it still works ;D

It is because the btinternet.com email is handled by Yahoo, so there is no entry in the avast SSL Accounts section for btinternet. I also have another one appear for virginmedia.net and I don’t know what account that may well be farming out their email handling to them.

The main thing is all of my accounts work.

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Virginmedia is using Gmail

Virgin Media switches to Gmail
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/15/virgin_media_gmail/

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Well it isn’t a case of virginmedia off loading their email service to someone else, I don’t use gmail either nor I don’t use virginmedia ;D

I think this could be going back to my old dial-up with Tesco, which I believe Tesco was using virginmedia backbone. But I have done a clean reinstall of avast since those days. I hate mysteries.