MS Outlook and Avast 4.5.517

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,

I’ve just update Avast Home to 4.5.517 ;D New ver looks really nice, but…

I use MS Outlook as e-mail client and now I can’t download my e-mails.

I change the configuration manually (instead of “127.0.0.1” I wrote pop3.servername.com). Now I don’t see icon in tray during checking for a new mail :-[ Is it correct?

I think I read somewhere at forum that new release do it automatically ???

Greetingz for Alwil Team and all Avast users.

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Usually its only pop.servername.com. Some servers won’t work if you use pop3.servername.com as address.

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http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=8607
Read what has been told there by me, Igor and Vlk

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ok, "pop3.servername.com " was an example.

But should I reconfigure my e-mail program (MS Outlook 2003) ??? And what about icon in sys tray (I’m not sure how it’s called in English - icon in right bottom, near clock, which is shown during downloading e-mails).

Cheers!

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MS Outlook should be handled by Outlook/Exchange provider without any reconfiguration… is the provider running? You can also check its settings - there is an option there to show the icon in system tray during scanning.

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All (i.e) 6 providers are running. I’ve check the option yoy mentioned above, but I dont’t see the icon in sys tray during scaning ???

BTW, now Avast! (e-mails’ downloading) works 10 times faster than earlier ver ;D ;D ;D

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Try to send yourself the eicar test file to see if you’re protected.

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I’ve just done it: seems that e-mail’s scanning works (some of test was failed - e.g. #4 and #5(?) )