Email settings for gmail on mozilla thunderbird
- #Email settings for gmail on mozilla thunderbird upgrade
- #Email settings for gmail on mozilla thunderbird full
Tbird is working again with out the pop up but I suspect, if I don't change something in Avast, at some point it will get confused again and the "add security exception" popup loop will return again as it did before. Perhaps the popup problem comes from having SSL turned on in both Tbird and Avast or perhaps Gmail is involved in some way (all my accounts are gmail) but I can't afford at the moment to possibly kill all my email by experimenting.įor the moment, I stopped the "Add Security Exception" pop up loop by killing Tbird process & relaunching. You should re-enable SSL/TLD in your mail client and delete the accounts here"īut my varioius gmail accounts already have SSL turned on in Tbird so I am confused by that instruction and as I personally have a lot of gmail SSL accounts I am too nervous about deleting the SSL Scanning settings in AVAST without confirmation of that being the problem. In Ver 8, if you go to Mail Shield and Settings and then SSL Scanning I think you will see those SSL accounts listed and at the bottom this message, "Disabling SSL/TLS in your mail client and creating SSL accounts her is no longer needed.
#Email settings for gmail on mozilla thunderbird upgrade
I think in the upgrade process the problem 8 is retaining some of its previous SSL add on exceptions that it should not have. (In the older version Avast could not scan SSL protected emails unless SSL was turned off in the mail client and there were exceptions created in AVAST that turned on SSL there but now it does not need to do it that way) After that you need to open the Thunderbird application by double-clicking on its icon. Under the ‘IMAP access’ section, select ‘Enable IMAP’. Directly go to the ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP’ section. Click on the ‘Settings’ tab present in the top right corner.
#Email settings for gmail on mozilla thunderbird full
In Settings, go to the Forwarding and POP/IMAP and under IMAP Access select Enable IMAP. By enabling the IMAP settings, Thunderbird and Gmail can work together in full swing. To activate your out-of-office message in Thunderbird, take the following steps: Compose the out-of-office note like a new email for Thunderbird and save it as a template. I think it stems from how Avast used to handle the SSL scanning issue before ver 8 that has now changed with 8. Click on the Gear icon, then go to Settings. Check Your SMTP Server Settings Thunderbird and Gmail Thunderbird and Yahoo If youre using a different email service, go to your mail providers website and. Thunderbird’s out-of-office feature at a glance. I haven't solved the problem yet but it seems to be because of the interaction of AVAST ver 8 and Thunderbird email. is the cure worse than the problem? AV scanning of email is pretty important it seems to me. The other suggestion of turning off Avast's email scanning might also work but again. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and is what keeps your email from being publicly viewed in many situations.
of making ALL your emails far less secure. Turning off SSL/ TLS might prevent the problem but it introduces another.