Does Avast scan SSL mail yet? i.e gmail ?
it uses ports 995 and 465
avast 5 will have this feature.
Take a look here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=10428.0 to see how to set up secure email with avast!.
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Thank you, I look forward to avast 5 too! ;D
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Forgive me for the dig up, but since you can redirect POP to port 995 (from 110 which is default), why shouldn’t it work?
I actually did that, set it to 995, but couldn’t even connect to the mail server 
I don’t know much about mail servers/clients etc, so I guess it must have sounded pretty n00bish!
The POP port selection has nothing to do with re-direction.
In fact the ports you use are not really your choice at all. You get to choose between the ports offered by those running your mail server. You are, after all, connecting to their ports on their servers. You cannot just choose to use port 995 unless that is supported by your email server explicitly.
The standard for port 110 for POP is that this is an unsecured port and pretty much accepted in the industry.
The use of port 995 is a de-facto standard that has come into use as an SSL secured POP port.
What is the difference? To the average user not a whole lot. You almost always have to authenticate yourself with userid and password for both. With port 995 and SSL there is the security that your average Internet cafe user cannot snoop and see userid and password being sent.
For an anti-virus product there is a world of difference. Nobody and no anti-virus product can scan the email stream if it is delivered via an SLL secured port. Attempting to make avast scan secured email ports is an exercise in foolishness and frustration - it cannot and will not ever work. That is the whole point of a secured connection - just the same as the connection you use for your bank account transactions.
Currently with avast if you want to have email delivered via a secured port scanned then you must use a third party program (the most widely known is the free STunnel) that will manage the secure connections to the email server and then deliver the mail (totally within your system and so securely) to your email client of choice in a way that avast can scan the stream.
avast has said that in the upcoming release 5 of avast they will include the management of the secure email connections (as currently provided by STunnel) and the connections to the mail client so that the email streams originating from or destined for a secure connection with a mail server can be scanned.
While this will give the appearance of being able to scan email delivered via secure ports be under no illusion. This is not scanning the secure stream at all, it will be managing the secure connections, terminating the secure connections inside your system and then scanning the now unsecured stream inside your system.
Thank you! I got it! 8)