hi, I use Mozilla 1.7 for web and Email, and today it started changing my outgoing mail server to 127.0.0.1 and outgoing mail fails to send until I change the outgoing server back to normal. I am no IT guru but I have a grasp of what the loopback address is, I have really tried to understand what is happening, but I don’t get it. Avast uses loopback to check Emails, OK, but why does the server setting change and stay changed? Also my username got changed at one point from user@email.com to user#email.com. I have run the Email protection wizard, but I have not shut down and restarted yet (I am waiting for a big Email to send). could someone explain if this is normal - and if it is, why did it just start today.
I have been using Avast and Mozilla together for about a year and never had any problems at all (Avast is my first choice, it works better than any of the other free virus software - and I can’t afford to buy, so good on you Alwil for giving it to broke people like me!!)
Hi, I still have Win98 SE, I tried the help, but I just don’t understand. The computer was on and idle all night, not connected to the net, and when I tried to check my email this morning the username had changed to user#server.mail#server.com where “user” is my username, “server” is my ISP’s name and “mail” is mail, my normal username is user@server.com and my normal mail server is mail.server.com, although this time the outgoing server had not changed. I am tearing my hair out I don’t know what to do, I am not convinced it is an Avast thing, does anyone think it could be a virus or similar. I will try using Hijack This, I have never heard of it, but you all seem to mention it alot.
hi again,
I typed in exactly what you posted into my settings but no mail will send, it asks for my password, I type it in and OK then same again over and over. I couldn’t find any SMTP authentication tab, but I found one for “enable secure authentication” and I tried with this checked and unchecked - no difference.
the only way mail will send is with POP and SMTP set to use mail.server.com and my username as my email address (user@server.com)
but this resets every time mozilla is turned off to 127.0.0.1 and user@server.com#mail.server.com - I may have typed that in wrong in my last post. The other thing I noticed this time is that in the advanced settings (Mozilla) the only outgoing server is set to 127.0.0.1 (why it resets every time) but I am sure the last time I had webmail and I added a second server, the first and only one then was my ISP mail server - mail.server.com
I am going to uninstall Avast, delete my mail account, reinstall Avast, add my account again and hopefully that will fix this problem.
please post me any other info that I have overlooked
many thanks xxXXxx