Hi William
If you are using Outlook Express and if SpamCatcher is similar to POPFile
the following
instructions might work. I was making zero progress in my effort to get
OLE, Avast and POPfile
to work together until I found these instructions on some newsgroup last
week.
Good luck
Bruce Johnson
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This how-to assumes you already have Avast and PopFile installed.
First, we need to get Outlook Express back to its settings BEFORE Avast! was
installed.
a) If you already have Avast! installed, pause the Email scanner. Bring up
Avast's on-
access scanner configuration (the "a" icon in your system tray, next to
the clock), click
"Internet Mail", then "pause", then "ok".
b) Go into Accounts in Outlook Express, and set the POP3 and SMTP ports
back to how
they were before Avast! was installed. Also type your username and
password in as
they were before Avast! was installed.
c) Also in Accounts, go to the Server tab, and uncheck the box next to "My
Server
requires authentication.
Now we can get it all set up.
1) Bring up the PopFile Control Center. Go to "Configuration". Change the
POP3 Listen
port to 111, hit apply. Change the POP3 host
ort:user seperator
character to a tilde
(~), hit apply.
2) SHUTDOWN, then RESTART Popfile. This is ESSENTIAL for this process to
work!
3) Close Outlook Express (if it's open). (This is important!).
4) Launch the "Mail Protection Wizard" for Avast! This should be in
Avast!'s start menu
entry.
5) Choose "Set up the protection manually", then follow thru the wizard. It
will ask you to
confirm your SMTP and POP3 servers - SMTP should be the same as it was
before we
started this process, POP3 should read "127.0.0.1".
6) Bring up Avast's on-Access scanner configuration, click "Internet Mail",
then "continue.
7) For testing purposes, we're gonna tell Avast to put a message at the
bottom of
incoming and outgoing mail. In the same window, click "Customize". Both
the POP3
and SMTP tabs have an option to "Insert note into clean message".
8) Launch Outlook Express, then bring up the account properties for your
mail account.
The POP3 and SMTP servers should now read 127.0.0.1, and the account
name
should be in this format:
username#servername
ie. bob#mailserver.com
The "My Server requires authentication" checkbox should be checked. If this
isn't what you see, I suggest you start over - sounds like something didn't
quite work correctly.
9) Change the account name to match the following format:
server~username#127.0.0.1:111
Obviously, change "server" and "username" to match your server and username,
but leave the 127.0.0.1:111 part as it is.
10) Try sending yourself a test email. When you receive it back, it should
contain two
notes from avast - one incoming, one outgoing.
If that worked, congratulations!
If it seems that PopFile isn't classifying your email, check the second
green column on the "Email Programs" page of PopFile's documentataion for
how to use PopFile with Outlook Express. Don't use the first green box -
doing so at this stage will undo all our hard work!
Hope this helps.
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