Web Shield and email

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Hi, I’m running Windows98SE and just upgraded from dial-up to broadband. In doing so I changed ISP’s and thus mail servers. I’ve been able to re-establish webshield for IE6 and Mozilla, and also for OE, which I use for newsgroups, but I haven’t been able to re-establish webshield for T-Bird. I checked the tutorials but couldn’t find anything. Can I get some advice, or a link, or both?

Also, in the Mozilla/T-Bird newsgroups they are adamant that on-access scanning of email is useless. Care to respond?

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Strange… what does WebShield (that scans HTTP traffic) has anything to do with Thunderbird?
Which email provider (server) are you using? Hotmail? Gmail?

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Making a statement like shows an ignorance of the workings of email scanners, not to mention such a sweeping statement that would include all email scanners, including those they haven’t even tried. Without saying why they feel they are useless doesn’t even give room for debate on those points and if there are email scanners that do combat those supposed areas of weakness.

Email viruses still are by far the normal means of delivery for most people and avast’s email scanner scanning and ability to delete before they get into the inbox also avoids the potential of the virus getting established and more difficult to remove. Not to mention many email scanners can’t remove an individual infected email from an email folder/database and the only option is to delete the email folder. avast! avoids this issue by deleting the email before it gets into the inbox.

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Agree 8)
But maybe RF was refering to Webshield instead Internet Mail Provider by mistake, regarding TB?

So, did you? :wink:

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Maybe… but in this case, why should it work with Outlook Express?
RF, If you have Windows 98 SE you should have:

pop3 server= smtp server = 127.0.0.1
username = mail.server.coml#user or mail.server.com#user@server.com
smtp authentication enabled and the username there = mail.server.coml#user or mail.server.com#user@server.com

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Maybe you could try searching the Mozilla Thunderbird Support Forum:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39&sid=b62a988ee05af78d1e01a4643c32184f

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Sorry - I had my terminology wrong. I’m not using G-mail or the like, so it’s not Webshield, but I am trying to provide on-access scanning for email, which runs on POP3 incoming and SMTP outgoing.

So I tried changing the user name as Zagor wrote it out, in this case:
incoming.verizon.net#rofo@verizon.net
and
outgoing.verizon.net#rofo@verizon.net

These lines are structured the way they were with my old ISP and they worked, but for some reason (and it’s not my password, even though the attachment I’m posting seems to say it is) I can’t open up.

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It is not WebShield as you noticed, but Avast Internet Mail provider shield (ashmaiSv.exe) that should work as a proxy for your Thunderbird. Works with my TB.

You have to allow avast email scanner in your firewall to allow outbound connections.

Don’t remember if 9X systems needed some manual email client configuration.

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C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashMaiSv.exe

See http://forum.avast.com/index.php?action=display;board=2;threadid=7913;start=0#msg64228