I have a fast cable connection. Whenever I enable the mail scanner for outgoing mail I get timeout errors, except for the really tiny messages. However, I dont think the problem is avast or my connection. I tried increasing the timeouts in both OE and Avast, it didn’t help.

Some test message e-mail that I got trouble with was sent within a couple of seconds when I disabled the outgoing mail scanner. But when I enabled it, the same message generates a timeout after about 1 min. I dont think scanning the file takes 55 seconds, so whats going on here? I got WinXP SP2, perhaps that might be the source of the trouble…(?)