I know the company line is that NIS email scanning only supports ports 25 and 110, not secure ports. I haven't used those unsecured ports in several years. My providers use secure ports. NIS supports email scanning on my secure ports with Outlook Express. So it's not a ports issue, it's an issue of supporting Thunderbird.
Considering how popular Thunderbird is, and that Outlook Express is not available in Windows 7, is there any plan to add direct Thunderbird email scanning support to NIS?
I know the company line is that NIS email scanning only supports ports 25 and 110, not secure ports. I haven't used those unsecured ports in several years. My providers use secure ports. NIS supports email scanning on my secure ports with Outlook Express. So it's not a ports issue, it's an issue of supporting Thunderbird.
Considering how popular Thunderbird is, and that Outlook Express is not available in Windows 7, is there any plan to add direct Thunderbird email scanning support to NIS?
Hi, SendOfJive,
I saw your similar post from last year. My new post was intended to see if there is anything new on scanning for spam. (I'm not talking about viruses here.) It was also to point out a certain illogic in the repeated statement that NIS's antispam can't work with Thunderbird if it's using secure ports. NIS does work with secure ports and Outlook Express.
On my XP machine where I use OE, NIS will mark spam it finds with a subject line addition [Norton AntiSpam]. This is always email coming in on a secure port. With Thunderbird and the exact same ISP and secure ports, NIS will not find or mark the spam that it finds with OE.
It just seems like if Symantec found a way to integrate with Outlook Express, it should be able to do it with Thunderbird.