I am running Opera 5.1 together with Avast Pro about 20 days ago. Everything worked as it should, but running Avast as a proxy.
I of course want to set up Avast to operate in proxy mode, but I failed with it. Opera does not get a connection via Smtp and IMAP any more.
The description of the settings for my e-mail client are pretty clear in the help file of Avast. But the description for the changes in the avast4.ini are not so clear.
The complete section [MailScanner] was not present originally in the *.ini file. So I tried to insert all the necessary settings there. Now they look like this:
BTW:
My mail-provider is GMX. I am sending via SMTP and receiving IMAP. The server needs an identification on both protocols. For both protocols I use the same username and the same password. In order to be able to send mails, also the e-mail-sender-adress has to be identical to the true e-mail adress which here is clemens.huerten@gmx.com.
In case this does matter: I have Internet access via a combined router with dsl-modem. My computer has 192.168.2.1 accessing it via the router.
Til now I am not able to use Avast! in all its features. This is unsufficient for me, because I think, it is a good virus-scanner and I planned to buy full version. But in my view “full-version” should mean “full function”.
Did I mix up something in the settings? Any help welcome! Urgent!
Hey Clemens_1,
It’s radicalb21. First off let me welcome you to the forum. I would suggest taking a look a at couple of different threads authored by Technical. Here are a links to those threads:
Hello Vojtech!
I have read all the instructions in the forum concering the avast4.ini file and tried my very best but without success.
I have tried to set in the ini-file either:
[MailScanner] DefaultSmtpServer=mail.gmx.net
while in the e-mail-client Opera M2:
Server: 127.0.0.1
username: aaabbbcc#mail.gmx.net
password: rrrbbbyyy
or
[MailScanner]
DefaultSmtpServer=aaabbbcc#mail.gmx.net
while in the e-mail-client Opera M2:
Server 127.0.0.1
username: aaabbbcc#mail.gmx.net
password: rrrbbbyyy
or
[MailScanner]
DefaultSmtpServer=aaabbbcc#mail.gmx.net
while in the e-mail-client Opera M2:
Server 127.0.0.1
username: mail.gmx.net
password: rrrbbbyyy
None of these combinations did work. The e-mail client does not get access.
Hello radicalb21!
as above, I have tried the different entries in the avast4.ini file but without success.
The second thread, you have shown, I tried the ideas there:
I started the E-Mail Assistant and could set up “Internet Mail”. In the Window “On Access Scanner” I can start a new window via the button 2configure"
Now there are all three tasks active: POP3, SMTP and IMAP.
Thank you Vojtech for your interest and your response!
Yes, the process ashMaiSv.exe is running. If I left-click on the Avast-Icon in the systray, it shows me all the services and the Internet / Mail-Sertvice is shown as active. I can configure it from there.
The main question here is:
Is Avast! able to connect with the mailserver and log in there in order to fetch e-mails?
I think, it cannot, beacause for logging in at gmx you will have to enter a username and a password. In the describtion of Avast! help and the thread about avast4.ini I only could see, that they log in with username#mail.server.com
Or is it the e-mail client Opera M2, which perhaps is not able to correspond properly with avast via the 127.0.0.1.
Or is it Opera M2 which cannot submit password after Avast has begun with login and by this the login procedure will not be completed.
I don’t see a feature, to switch on something like a login or a connection protocoll, so that I can see, at which part things get wrong!
In Opera M2 as in other mail clients I can fill in username, password and of course the mailserver (SMTP and POP3 / IMAP). In Avast! I only can fill in username#mailserver…
As I allready have posted, I tried all the possible combinations and none did work! As far as I understand, it should work properly, if I set mail.server.com in avast4.ini and then set the account in the mail client with server = 127.0.0.1 andfill in in Username the username#mail.server.com and password.
Thank you for your screenshot. Looks very much like I have set up here, but instead of localhost I typed 127.0.0.1. I think it is the same, isn’t it?
And in Avast I will remove all my settings but those, which came from Avast! by using the Mail Protection Wizzard. That means corresponding to my pervious postings, that I will remove all lines in the section [MailScanner] from Log=1, is that true?
I have checked the aswMaiSv.log
In it there are all my changes logged, which I made in avast4.ini.
At the beginning there were the following lines, which were generated on computer start up this morning:
06/11/04 08:19:25: Started
06/11/04 08:19:25: Build 4.1.412
06/11/04 08:19:25: Using WinSock 2.0
06/11/04 08:19:25: WSAAccept not loaded
In the last line… is this OK? I don’t know what “WSAAccept” really means.
Further:
If now all the settings in my Opera M2 mail client are OK, so only avast4.ini remains as a source for my problems.
Please which lines should be there and which not. Are there some missing?
Now I have focussed completeley on avast4.ini file. I have checked one more time step by step and line by line all in teh section MailScanner. Now my avast4.ini lokks like this:
By the line Log=20 I get everything in the aswMaiSv.log
Then I started my mail-client to connect, but it failed again.
Then I opened the aswMaiSv.log to find out what is going wrong here and I found the following:
BTW: GMX wants that you close the connection after you have finished all transactions. In Outlook there has been a control box option where I could activate this “closing”.
Does anybody know what is going on here? What is going wrong?
So it seems it logs in directly and not after a first unsuccessfull try.
Next: I only see, that Avast proxy is connecting properly to IMAP mail server at gmx, upon a reuqest via 127.0.0.1, but I don’t see, that the mail client is using / able to use this connection! This is strange!
And because the mail client can’t use the connection, it will not go on with the data exchange and try SMTP sending also. It simply tells that it cannot access IMAP.
So we are one big step towards a solution but still not there
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