Chris, I suspect you are correct in your assessment of the concern.
I guess you missed my sticky post in the AVG 7.x email forums that told you how to get the emails received through services like this scanned - I have not bothered to look at AVG 8 which seemed to move most of the moderators in the Thunderbird forums to recommend against using it. It was certainly not the prettiest of solutions (rather like the way AVG later provided for scanning secure server connections). The scanning solution was done much more elegantly in the anti-virus I far prefer - avast (just check one box in the GUI) and avast scans all my emails received through the Webmail extensions. In the case of NOD32 ... some time ago I registered in their service to help out another Thunderbird user with problems. Of course I did not pay for the product and I doubt they will give me another trial period so soon to see how their product works. On Jan 8, 1:38 am, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > I think Julian's question was actually about getting NOD32 to scan > emails received with the extensions. Rather than complaining that NOD32 > is interfering with the extensions, he thinks that it doesn't do enough. > If I recall, this is the same for all email virus scanners, as the > server through which the mail last passes is localhost, an internal > server on your computer, the scanner assumes there is no threat and > doesn't scan mails. Certainly my AVG doesn't scan incoming mail through > the extensions. > > > > alanrf wrote: > > I am not a user of NOD32. > > > However, I get the impression from other post here that it may be the > > cause of problems with the Webmail extensions/add-ons in the default > > configuration. > > > Please think about trying the following steps: > > > The default configuration for the Webmail extension is to use the > > ports 110 for POP (receiving email) and 25 for SMTP (sending email). > > > If NOD32 is (let's be polite) causing issues with these ports then it > > may be well to try different port numbers that may not be interferred > > with by NOD32. > > > Port numbers are (for email anyway) not magic ... they are just > > numbers. > > > So may I suggest that you try this .... > > > In the main Webmail extension change the POP port to say 2110 and the > > SMTP port to 2025 > > > Then in your Hotmail or Yahoo account in the Thunderbird settings > > change the POP port for the account from 110 to 2110 and in the SMTP > > entry for the account change the port from 25 to 2025. > > > Does this help at all? > > > On Jan 7, 5:08 pm, julian <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I am using nod32 v 3.0.669.0 as my complete internet security > >> solution. I really like it but the only problem I am having is that > >> nod32 will not scan any of the incoming mails. I ran a e-mail test > >> called GFI Email Security Test and all of the e-mails got downloaded. > >> The only time it blocked them is when I tried to open the attachments. > >> Also in the system overview it says Email Protection, number of emails > >> scanned 0. What can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG -http://www.avg.com > > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1881 - Release Date: 1/7/2009 > > 5:59 PM > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
