Opera, Gmail & Avast Mail Scanner settings

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi Guys ! Here’s my problem…I’m using opera mail with gmail and I can’t get avast to scan my mails. I tried a lot of settings and I can’t get it to work…when I retreive/open my emails avast doesn’t show any sign of activity, scanned count is always 0.

So far I tried the following:
-opera (incoming imap port 993 and outgoing smtp 587 both TLS enabled)…mail retrived succesefuly but not scanned;
-opera (same settings no TLS) avast (imap 993 and smtp 587)…mail not retrived.

Can someone point me in the right direction? What am I doing wrong?

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I don’t think avast supports secure email connections yet.

That should be a feature in version 5 though.

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Hi cipicu86,

At the moment, avast! is unable to scan SSL secured connections, so will be unable to scan gmail.
This will change in the release of version 5.

I am not sure how mail is integrated into opera, so I don’t know how it will work, but there are ways to make it scan using other mail clients - like thunderbird, outlook etc.

-Scott-

[EDIT} Oops, didn’t see scythe944’s post :wink:

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It’s ok, yours is more informative than mine anyway! ;D

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I’ll give it a try with avast 5 latest beta.

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@cipicu86

please read this post : http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=47740.0 before doing that. it is not advised to do so.

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Yeah, keep in mind that it’s still BETA. Which means things don’t work, and things can (might) break.

If you use your computer on a daily basis, and need the information on it, I wouldn’t suggest running a BETA anti-virus as your protection. It’s possible to cause more harm than good. Avast 5 should be out pretty soon, so I’d just sit tight.