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Posted by on June 7, 2005, 1:45 pm
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Not for the first time today I am a bit confused!
I am using the AVG Personal Email Scanner with Thunderbird.
I understand the AVG listens on port 10110 and 10025 for pop3 and smtp
mail.
How come I don't need to change Thunderbird to use port 10110 and
10025?
It's still set on 110 and 25.
How does AVG intercept the email traffic when it is not even listening
on port 110 or 25?
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Posted by James Egan on June 7, 2005, 10:36 pm
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On 7 Jun 2005 13:45:41 -0700, bozzzza@lycos.co.uk wrote:
>How come I don't need to change Thunderbird to use port 10110 and
>10025?
>
>It's still set on 110 and 25.
>
Did you remember to change the mail server ip address in Thunderbird
to localhost (or 127.0.0.1)?
Sounds like you are bypassing the anti-virus software and going
straight to your ISP's mailservers
Jim.
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Posted by on June 7, 2005, 3:53 pm
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James Egan wrote:
> On 7 Jun 2005 13:45:41 -0700, bozzzza@lycos.co.uk wrote:
>
SNIP
> Did you remember to change the mail server ip address in Thunderbird
> to localhost (or 127.0.0.1)?
>
> Sounds like you are bypassing the anti-virus software and going
> straight to your ISP's mailservers
That's why I am confused, I have done none of that and it works!
I don't understand why?
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Posted by James Egan on June 8, 2005, 12:18 am
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>That's why I am confused, I have done none of that and it works!
>
>I don't understand why?
I'm not an AVG user so I don't know what changes to your configuration
the installation program makes but generally speaking if you were
doing it all manually, you would change your email client settings so
the pop server is "localhost" or 127.0.0.1 on port (say) 10110. Then
set up your email scanner to listen on port 10110 for connections and
also configure it with your ISP's mailserver details. Then when you
check for mail, the mail client, on seeing that the mailserver is on
the same pc (localhost) passes the request onto the email scanner
which then collects the mail from your ISP, filters it in accordance
with whatever settings you have, and passes it on to the email client.
So if your email client still has settings for your ISP then you are
simply bypassing the email scanner and connecting to your ISP as you
were before the email scanner was installed.
Jim.
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Posted by on June 8, 2005, 1:49 am
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James Egan wrote:
> On 7 Jun 2005 15:53:32 -0700, bozzzza@lycos.co.uk wrote:
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> >
SNIP
>
> So if your email client still has settings for your ISP then you are
> simply bypassing the email scanner and connecting to your ISP as you
> were before the email scanner was installed.
>
>
> Jim.
Yes I have done things like that in the past for other AV S/W.
I know its working because I ran the telnet command:-
telnet myispmailserver.com 110
Instead of getting the isp mail server I got the AVG Proxy server, and
I got a popup window by the system tray telling me that the AVG scanner
was connected to my ISP's mail server!
I wonder how they do this?
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