How to Resolve Email Client Warnings in Avast Products?

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How to Resolve Email Client Warnings in Avast Products?


Avast monitors your browsing and social networking apps to detect and scan for any harmful elements. It scores well in testing independent security software labs. When this Antivirus is installed on your system some 3rd party clients like Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey or The Bat!, may display that the mail server certificate is invalid when you communicate via emails. This applies to products like Avast (Premiers, Internet Security, Pro Antivirus, and Free Antivirus). An advanced scanning process is used in antivirus by Mail Shield for communicating over SSL/TLS. The 3rd party email clients possess their own certificate stores and may need extra configuration to avoid warnings of invalid mail server certificates.


Avast Support helps you to stop warnings about invalid server certificates, export the Mail Shield certificate and import it into your email client’s certificate store. Learn to export using the following steps and resolve warnings. • Go to Avast User Interface and select Settings. • Click Components and hit the Customize button besides Mail Shield. • From the left panel click SSL scanning and tick the box besides Scan SSL connection.


• Click Export certificate. • To save the exported Shield certificate (like your Windows Desktop) choose a location and hit the Save. • In the Avast Information dialog hit the OK button. • Now import the Mai Shield certificate into your mail client.

IMPORTANT: Each email account needs to be set up in your mail client as required by your mail provider. Now for instructions, refer to your mail client’s and mail provider’s documentation.


You may face some problems while following the above process, but the encountered issues can be resolved as soon as you Contact Avast Tech Support Number 1-855-254-6999. Whenever you feel that it is not detecting threats or removing them correctly, make a call and get instant help from our agents. Our specialists will never leave you unsatisfied as they use the latest technology to resolve your problems. So get instant help by connecting to our support team. Source: https://goo.gl/UdSF1f


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