As I wrote in the previous post, you need “IgnoreLocalhost=0” in the avast.ini file. (Only when you want to manually set up your email protection in avast!4.5 or under, you need to set the value of “IgnoreLocalhost” as 0.)

In avast!4.6 you can uncheck “Ignore local communication” in Resident task settings for Internet Mail, which set the value for IgnoreLocalhost as 0.

If you don’t use Gmail and your ISP’s SMTP server listens on (=use) the port 25, you can’t and shouldn’t use the port 587. You should write in the stunnel.conf file like this:

[yourISP-smtps]
protocol = smtp
accept = localhost:11025
connect = yourISP'sSMTPservername:25

Please don’t use the port 587 in any setting.

465 is the default port for the SMTP/SSL connection, but some services use other ports for the connection.

When you use the SMTP/TLS connection, you need to put “protocol = smtp” in the stunnel.conf file. When you use the SMTP/SSL connection, you shouldn’t.

(I guess when you use the POP/TLS connection, you need to put “protocol = pop3” in the stunnel.conf file, and that when you use the POP/SSL connection, you shouldn’t, as well.)

According to you, your ISP uses the SMTP/TLS connection as does Gmail. As another example, AOL uses SMTP/SSL connection. (If you need the information on AOL’s IMAP/SMTP SSL support, go to http://journals.aol.com/adamkb/blog/entries/386.)