I have to send out 800 short emails each week. The way I have been doing it is, I send 400 and then 400 more. After the first batch of 400 goes out, I find that my modem will not function and needs to be reset.
A suggestion has been made that this may be related to my Avast antivirus. Is that possible? I could put Avast down while I’m sending the emails, but I’m obviously reluctant to do that.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Details: Windows Vista Home Premium. Mozilla Thunderbird. 2 computers on a Netopia modem via an AirLink router. All software is up to date.
If it was avast then it would be the Internet Mail provider’s heuristics on a high number of identical emails being sent in a short time. However that would be blatantly obvious as avast would alert and this obviously isn’t happening otherwise I’m sure you would have said.
Again if it were avast the fist 400 probably wouldn’t make it out the door either, so I’m not convinced avast is in the frame.
Do you use a software firewall, if so what ?
What other security software do you have ?
Something you can try to see if it makes any difference.
You could try just temporarily Terminating the Internet Mail provider (I say terminate as pause still uses the proxy I believe but they aren’t scanned) or you could opt not to scan outbound email before you send these and enable it again afterwards.
Sorry, but I’m not familiar with the techniques available for replying. What’s the standard way?
Do you use a software firewall, if so what ? Just the stuff that MS Vista supplies.
What other security software do you have ? None.
Something you can try to see if it makes any difference.
You could try just temporarily Terminating the Internet Mail provider (I say terminate as pause still uses the proxy I believe but they aren’t scanned) or you could opt not to scan outbound email before you send these and enable it again afterwards.
I don’t know what you mean, or how to do that. I’m not aware that any scanning happens on outbound. I have never felt the need to have it scanned.
You can quote and divide the questions/answers in pieces… if you want, of course.
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon.
Click ‘Details’ button.
Choose Internet mail provider at left and click ‘Customize’.
Check if SMTP is being scanned (outbound).
Choose your heuristic mail settings to not alert you when so many identical emails is sent (Heuristic tab of settings and click ‘Customize’ button).
No standard way, quoting if fine but not easy if your going to try and split into separate points, using colour as you have done works.
That is why I posted the image as that show where you can change it, by default the scan outbound email is enabled.
It is helpful not only for scanning your outbound email but it can also provide a valuable indicator if something (undetected) is sending out spam, if you set the sensitivity to High, the heuristics would probably alert to indicate multiple identical emails. This would be the same for an undetected spambot.