[Users] AVG renders Claws Mail unusable on Windows

[edwardp at linuxmail.org]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:49:28 -0500
edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:

> I tried to configure AVG antivirus to use SSL connections to e-mail
> and it has now rendered Claws Mail unusuable.  When it now
> 'launches', it displays connection errors to 127.0.0.1, nothing more
> and I never seen the Claws Mail main screen now.
> 
> I went by their SSL instructions on the AVG web page.  
> 
> This should be be fixed.  It was set to a SSL connection to an IMAP
> server.
> 
> Even after a system reboot, Claws continues to do this in what seems
> an infinite loop.  Going to uninstall Claws, but it may not fix the
> problem since the accounts would still be in the settings directory,
> I'm sure.

Once I reinstalled Claws Mail, without AVG installed, it tried to
connect to the localhost on those ports, rather than the actual mail
server and it went through the same errors rather quickly.  

Once it went through all of them, the main Claws Mail screen appeared
and I was able to then change the server and port settings back to
what they should be.  I also replaced AVG with Avast, which doesn't
require any special program settings in the e-mail program being
used for SSL connections.  The server hostnames are added to Avast
itself and it handles the SSL connections.  

Problem solved.  Thank you for the reply, Michael.