I would be interested to know how many more months AVAST needs to solve the problem with activated email checks (incoming/outgoing) in Thunderbird 102.6.1 and Outlook 2013 Prof. since about April/May?
Both the current AVAST Free Antivirus 22.12.6044 (build 22.12.7758.769) and Premium versions at customers on different computers at different locations block incoming and outgoing EMail traffic. Only when Mail Shield → Scan in- and outbound emails is disabled, you can use Thunderbird and Outlook normally again and receive and send emails.
It is very unfortunate that Avast no longer seems to be able to offer security software that checks incoming and outgoing emails and does not block incoming and outgoing.
@vj2
I cannot send to IMAP email account using Thunderbird and Avast, but receiving emails is OK from that account.
Another POP email account sending and receiving is OK using same Thunderbird and Avast.
The solution is in all cases to disable
Menu> Protection> Core Shields> Mail Shield> untick, “Scan outbound emails (SMTP)” and incoming emails!
So you should disable the mail shield so that you can use your EMailClient properly. This is simply grotesque!
What do you need such a function in Avast for?
So you should disable the mail shield so that you can use your EMailClient properly. This is simply grotesque!
What do you need such a function in Avast for?
All mail providers scan in/outgoing mail at the mail server for malware and spam and many use multiple scan engines, so you have protection even if avast scan fail