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Thank you for your compliment, but this has been done not by me but by many members in this forum. I just modified it and added some new information. We should thank the members that have gathered and organized the information we need to use the secure connection with avast!.
The FAQ I wrote is for those who use the email client, the SPAM filter, avast!, and Stunnel in this order for the secure connection. If you are a Windows NT, 2000, XP, or 2003 user and use Gmail with only the email client, avast!, and Stunnel, you can do the following things to configure them:
(1) Follow A. in FAQ to prepare Stunnel. You can use the code in A. for the stunnel.conf file without modifying it.
(2) Set up your Gmail account in your email client like this:
POP access
SMTP access
The servers are where Stunnel is, and the ports are where Stunnel listens.
(3) Right-click on the avast! tray icon. Select “On-Access Protection Control”. Choose “Internet Mail” from “Installed providers”, the pane on the left side of the “avast! On-Access Scanner” window. Click on the “Customize” button on the right side of the window. Click on the “Redirect” tab. First uncheck “Ignore local communication” in the tab. Then add in “Redirected ports” 11110 for POP and 11025 for SMTP. These ports are where Stunnel listens, and where avast! will scan emails you send and receive over your Gmail account.
Don’t forget to turn off “Ignore local communication” in (3). In the “POP” and “SMTP” tabs make sure you’ve checked “Scan Inbound/Outbound mail”.
If you can’t have avast! scan your emails on Gmail yet, feel free to ask me a question providing some more information on yours.