Weird new one happened to me this afternoon – all of a sudden, my outgoing mail is being totally stripped of its subject-line and all content. Incoming mail appears to remain just fine.
I tried turning off the scan of outgoing mail, with no change in results, and finally turned off the email resident provider entirely with still no improvement. I’m guessing this probably indicates the problem isn’t with avast, but I’m certainly open to suggestions as to anything I might have missed in avast.
Incidentally, I sent myself a test email which came through fine, but of course that bypasses most of the STMP/POP routine so doesn’t really tell me anything.
I’m on 4-Home (4.1.335 w/ 0401-1), and mailer is Eudora 6 in sponsored mode. I’ve checked the Eudora setup options and nothing there jumps out at me as having been changed, and I’ve also run an avast thorough scan which turned up nothing.
Thanks, Vlk - if nothing else, it’s nice to hear that it probably wasn’t something I personally messed up.
I’m a little surprised that stopping the intermail provider entirely didn’t clear up the problem.
I’d guess that my best choice at this point might be to use the Add/Remove Programs/Change and take out the email provider? And of course change Eudora’s server settings back to “normal”. Or do your experts think there might be something else in avast involved too, besides that provider? I’ll give it a try, anyway, can’t hurt anything that I can think of.
You can read more by checking the topic “Mail Bounces Back”. If you go to program files/Alwil Software/Avast4/ashPOPWz, select next, then choose Set up manually and only check for incoming mail, it should let your mail go out. I had the same problem with Eudora and after doing this, it seems to work ok.
By the time I saw your reply, I’d already gone the add/remove route, and that seems to work just fine. What the heck, my ISP uses excellent VirusGuard anyway – and probably 99 percent of email viruses are in attachments, which I hope we’ve all got enough sense to avoid (exe’s and other executables, anyway).
And it was even simpler that I thought – I’d forgotten that if you remove the email provider, rather than simply stop it, your mailer’s server settings automatically get set back to what they were before avast got into the act.