I guess I must have missed it. Sorry about that. I guess I’m blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other one. ;D
Anyway, I entered the POP settings and the SMTP settings with commas like the picture showed and unchecked the box. Now when an email comes in, the email scan icon shows up in the tray next to the clock. The only problem is, even though I told my firewall to let the email scanner work, nothing gets through.
If nothing gets through I’m not sure if you would be seeing the avast email icon as that is there when it is scanning something, unless you are only seeing it on outbound email.
It may be best to delete the entry for ashMaiSv.exe in your firewall and then manually try to collect your email, that should force your firewall to ask again.
Though I’m not entirely sure if avast is truly in the loop if your your thunderbird Gmail Add-on is the one doing the download and then avast scans the content of what it downloaded.
The icon shows up? As DavidR says, ashMaiSv.exe must be scanning but that “something” probably is inappropriate.
Could you check your setting for WebMail account? Go Account Setting>Server Setting under your gmail account name
Server Name: 127.0.0.1
Port:110
User Name:your_google_account_name@gmail.com
Use Secure Connection: No
Please note that you shouldn’t be using secure connection and that you need to use full gmail address for User Name.
Are you sure?
Take a look here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10428.0 to see how to set up secure email with avast!.
Sure. WebMail addon on Thunderbird requires fewer teaks compared with stunnel. Now I forgot to point out that WebMail doesn’t need the special port configuration after commas in Tech’s screen shot. Tech is using stunnel. However, it is necessary to let it watch local traffic by unchecking the “ignore local connection” setting whether we are using WebMail addon or stunnel.
That said, I’d rather be happier with Thunderbird + Gmail IMAPs + stunnel. We can make full use of Gmail’s functions, especially the spam filter through IMAPs, too.
This thread have links to more recent two threads, in both of which you are involved, with more updated info. Stunnel installation is not so difficult if may be bit confusing and once it’s set, we can forget about it. WebMail addon has its special benefit such as making Thunderbird usable even under tight firewalls.