Here is what you need to get Avast, ThunderBird, Spampal, & Hotmail Popper to work together.
I was up all night getting this to work, so someone should reap the benefits.
Avast: (avast4.ini)
ShowTrayIcon=1
UseDefaultSmtp=1
AutoSetProtection=0
DefaultPopServer=127.0.0.1:1110
DefaultSmtpServer=127.0.0.1:25001 (You could use your own ISPās SMTP)
Thunderbird: (or any email program you love)
(config)
Server Settings
Server Name: 127.0.0.1 Port 110 YourName@hotmail.com@127.0.0.1:11110
Outgoing Server (SMTP)
Server Name: 127.0.0.1 Port: 25
Use Name and Password (checked)
User Name: YourName@hotmail.com
This make sense???
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This took me several hours to getā¦ so expect this to take a while to wrap your brain around.
Iām sure you could tunnel this all through SSL and then your brain would explode.
I have a similar set up with Thunderbird and Spampal. The trick is that incoming port number for each program and including the local IP in the user id as well, something like āyourname#pop3.yourisp.com@localhostā
Hotmail Popper is a littler program that will sit in your system tray, and allows
you to check your hotmail through POP3, via address 127.0.0.1, with any port you want.
Its pretty annoying getting it to work with both avast, spampal, and thunderbird.
If you have a yahoo account you can use YahooPops! 8)
Those programs are freeware! If you want to use Thunderbird to check excite or netscape mail
you have to get web2pop or something like that, but those programs cost money.
Its complicatedā¦ but at the very LEAST you can get this all to work togetherā¦ which is more than I actually expected.
Culpeper suggested i write in here also. Im not able to get the program i hate spam form sunbelt to work with avast. Its a self integrated spam program that becomes part of outlook express, so there is no other program to run Pre of getting emails. Yet Culpeper and I have been trying many things, and spam gaurd doent like any settings altered in any way. We did a few things in DATA Avast.ini, still dint work, some of the things we did set a new string in the outlook setup which made i hate spam do an error. Then the program says settigns are wrong then auto correctsā¦
Here is a pic of the working adjustments that i hate spam adjusts, this would be the same for all 4 of my emails accounts, except the user name would differ for each one.
Well, thats all i have for now, hope we can figure this one out. Im going to go out and grab a bite to eat, hope I can enjoy, my mind is so on this situation. i bought 2 spam licenses, for 2 computers , so im hopeing there is a solution. For more details there is more in my original thread. Again thanks Culpepper for all of your help. This is a nice place and im happy to be a part ofā¦
By emulating Dresslerās settings above you might experiment with the avat4.ini and OE settings. Like I mentioned before your spam program wants to be first and hog port 110 so you need to get the chain of events in order so that Avast can scan email after it goes through the spam program and before it goes to your inbox in OE.
One example would be:
Avast4.ini
DefaultPopServer=127.0.0.1:1110
Outlook Experss
incoming port 110
OE Account Name datagg3:pop.west.cox.net@127.0.0.1:11110
Experimenting along these lines should get you the desired results.
Above all you need both a spam program and an email scanner but not one without the other.
Culpeper i have allready tried those .ini settings, tried all of them in various methodsā¦The one constant thing that i see that happens is that any program that tries to alter port settings or anything tha thas to do with servers etc is rejected by the spam program. All new settigns are changing the results in the picture i showed you, resulting in errorsā¦
Ive tried alot of other AV programs out there, I really like avast. Tried avg,panda,navā¦some let viruses thru, so i went on a hunt to search for AV programsā¦Now i finally found one i really like and this happensā¦
Thru my outpost firewall, and the protection that gives ill fairly confident for now im safe without an email; scanner, though I dont wish that for long, ill try hopefully with help from others we can figure this one out. Not just for me, but others who may be having this same problem. i hate Spam is getting great reviews and im sure is only going to get better, my spam is i would say 99% gone now, but as far as what im saying, for there to be a fix for this, either thru avast or Sunbelt. Alot of people shy away from great programs such as these for stuiped conflict problems, its a shame, and in the best interest for the manufactuers to fix. Ill still research this and try other options, culpeper thanjs a million for our help, ill try your new edited version when im done with this writing.
All of you thanks,
Any other ideas or suggestions for me and many others im sure would be appreciatedā¦
Very well, you do have a 30 day guarantee on the IHateSpam program and then switch to SpamPal which is a better program anyway and doesnāt cost money and has a support forum similar to this one. I use it with Avast. It catches 99% of my spam. Spampal places a SPAM text in the header of the email it flags as spam. Iām so confidient in it now that I use the OE filter rules to just delete anything with SPAM in the header from the server and therefore doesnāt end up in any mail folder in OE. You can also set up a separate spam folder and use the OE mail rules to send messages flagged as spam to that folder, and so forth.
Iām sorry you are having so much compatibility problems with your current spam program but we welcome you to the Avast program and these forums any time.
YEs ive used that one before, matter of fact its exe is on my driveā¦man I hate to get rid the other though, it works so wellā¦i am well within my return policy, so i will wait a couple of days and see if anyone can come up with any ideasā¦
Ok bro, in the meantime i exported all info spam program learnein case i reinstall. Ok, got rid of that program, instaled spam pal, set it up, had emails workign and being filtered, let avast do its setupā¦all went to hell, emails did not work, avast warnings. Took out the ini stuff we did, reset back to normal,redid changes made in OE, setup again, same thingā¦man i just dont get it, i must be jinxedā¦here si the avast popup warnng it gave right after it said succesful instalā¦ there are a few pics, ill upload in each replyā¦
