I recently switched to Avast and this afternoon, my wife told me she couldn’t send any email. We both use Google Apps email for our mail, but she uses Outlook Express, and I use Gmail in my browser. Gmail’s SMTP requires the use of smtp.gmail.com on Port 25, but using SSL.
Anyway, I looked at the error in Outlook Express, and this is what it said:
Subject ‘Re: Books and Stuff’, Account: ‘pop.gmail.com’, Server: ‘smtp.gmail.com’, Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: ‘250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES’, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): Yes, Server Error: 250, Error Number: 0x800CCC7D
I was able to get the email out by turning off “scan outbound email” in Avast, but I would prefer to leave that on. Does anyone know a way around this?
Basically avast can’t scan secure email, that is the whole point of secure email to keep prying eyes out. You can use a third party interface like STunnel to allow avast to scan secure email, but that requires that the ports used aren’t the standard non-secure POP3 (110) or SMTP (25) ports.
That is the problem using secure email over a standard SMTP port and not using the SMTP protocol.
I thought that gmail used a different port for SSL email that would stop avast trying to handle secure email (which it can’t do) over port 25.
Secure email SMTP Ports, Thunderbird-587 - Outlook/Express-465. Check and ensure that you are infact using the correct port for sending email.
You are correct on the secure ports for Gmail. Using Outlook Express with Gmail, the POP3 port is 995. and for SNMP it is 465. And then to have Avast scan these incoming and/or outgoing Gmail messages you need to use Stunnel or some other equivalent.
Other users have reported that, for them, GMail does work with port 25 and SSL. I have no reason to the disbelieve them even though that combination does not work for me.
It does indeed work with SSL & 25. It’s been working this way quite fine until I installed Avast. Zone Alarm was OK with it. I bypassed the outbound scan, and it seems to be working now. That’s not the way I wanted to go, but it does get the job done.
Gmail POP settings for Outlook Ekspress: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76147
Gmails are scanned by to antivirus engines, MacAfee and Authentium… so do you need avast to do it…trippel scanning is trippel security…
Gmail POP settings for Outlook Ekspress: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76147
Why would a user who has a connection that works perfectly well and differently from this make a change?
The user in this thread is discussing the scanning of emails sent through GMail - if you can provide a link that assures the user that mail sent through GMail is scanned by the GMail service then it would be helpful.
All incoming and outgoing e-mails are automatically scanned for viruses in e-mail attachments. If a virus is found on an attachment the reader is trying to open, Gmail will try to remove the virus and open the cleaned attachment. Gmail also scans all outgoing attachments and will prevent the message from being sent if a virus is found. Gmail also does not allow users to send or receive executable files or archives containing executable files.
The question is about pop and smtp gmail, where the mail is not opened or composed on the Gmail website. Is it still virus scanned by the gmail pop and smtp servers? I have found answers in the gmail forums for pop attachments always being scanned by the server, but haven’t located anything on smtp.
Yes, i have testet it. Disabled my antivirus and downloaded the Eicar testfil zip. and sendt it from outlook ekspress ( gmail smtp ssl 465 ) to my Yahoo and hotmail account, and the mail is removed. have also tried sending from yahoo ( smtp ssl 465 ) and hotmail, same result