just wondering ; on the server running Avast i’m also running FreeProxy to allow client PC’s in my network to access the Internet for http, pop3 & smtp.
i enabled e-mail checking and see that ashmaisv.exe (avast! e-Mail Scanner Service) is using port 110 & 25 (pop3 & smtp), so i wondered : if a client PC retrieves/sends mail with a virus, will Avast catch it ??
The mail scanner will not check mail unless you correctly configure it. Clients have to be configured to send/receive through mail scanner and the mail scanner has to be configured to accept connections from clients and to forward data to your proxy, see details in the help.
OK, i will look into it !!
Avast already scans Mozilla mail (set up with Mail Wizard) and TheBat! mail (thru the plugin), but i did not see anything about networked PC’s …
btw ; does that work on the Home edition or do i need the Pro for this ??
You can put Avast (preferably pro) on the server and run scans from there on the other machines. I think this is allowed. If you can setup Pro so that it scans all mails handled by the mail server on your server comp, it should protect all emails. I think this is possible and easy to do. I can be mistaken, but I’m sure someone will correct me on this if I am.
Remember that Avast (home and Pro) do not work on server os’s.
ah, but i do not have a real mail server ! i do not collect all mail on a central server and then distribute it to client PC’s …
i’m running a proxy program that allows networked PC’s to retrieve mail through the server (a Windows 2000 Pro machine) … because the proxy program gets the mail from the various POP3 servers through the standard port 110 and because Avast is scanning that port, i was hoping that it would also catch contaminated e-mails for/from networked PC’s …
i will check the mail scanner config as ‘vojtech’ suggested.
where can i set this all up ?? has it to be done manually in avast4.ini ??
edit : found it in the help file … going to try to set it up using PopListen, SmtpListen & Trust.
if i understand correctly, i will not even have to use my proxy program anymore ; Avast will be proxy & scanner.
OK, it works …
i can now send and retrieve mail from a networked PC thru Avast on the server connected to the Internet.
the only thing that does not seem to work is this :
“However, if the login name is Ann.Jones#pop3.tiscali.com, the Mail scanner will connect to the server pop3.tiscali.com and it will download the mail for the user Ann.Jones.”
when i specify the servername, Avast still tries to connect to DefaultPopServer …
I’m not sure on this one, but I think Avast scans mail that comes from a server and doesn’t care about for what user the mail is. Perhaps someone else pops in and is able to tell more.
the problem is that when i specify ‘username@pop3server’ on the networked PC, Avast on the server still uses the DefaultPopServer and DefaultSmtpServer … the help-fle says that ‘pop3server’ should be used !?
i ‘solved’ it by changing the default servers, but now Mozilla mail on the servers doesn’t work any more
might be a bug …
anyone here who uses Avast as a scanner/proxy on a server to check/send mail from networked PC’s ???
If you add this line
Log=20
to the file avast4.ini under [MailScanner], you can see what mail servers are connected in the log file (Avast4\DATA\log\aswMaiSv.log).
OK, the extended logging helped me to understand what happened … i was trying to send mail from 1 account thru the the wrong SMTP server (ie : mail-relay !).
POP is working fine, i’m using a DefaultPopServer= for the account i use most and for the other account i use username@pop3.myisp.com.
mail retrieval works OK, don’t have to be connected to the right ISP.
for sending mail, i also use a DefaultSmtpServer= for the default account, and for the other account i marked the authentication checkbox in Outlook Express and as user typed #smtp.myotherisp.com (as described in the help). of course i have to be connected to the right ISP (otherwise ; mail relay warning !)