How to Use POPFile with a Virus Scanner or Other POP Proxy

POPFile works conveniently as a POP proxy between your email program and your email server. But so do some anti-virus programs that automatically scan emails for viruses as you download them.

How can you have both spam and virus filtering? POPFile and other POP proxies can work in a chain. You just have to make POPFile listen for incoming connections from your email program on a different port. Then your email program talks to POPFile, which in turn retrieves the messages through the anti-virus tool.

Use POPFile with a Virus Scanner or Other POP Proxy

To use POPFile with a virus scanner or other POP proxy:

• Go to the POPFile interface.
• Go to the Configuration tab.
• Under POP3, change the POP3 listen port to "8110".
• Click Apply.
• Shut down and restart POPFile.
• Set up your email client to work with POPFile using the settings present in the email client.
  • If your email program is set up to use "127.0.0.1" as the POP server and "pop.isp.net/110/bob" as the user name, you'd change the user name to "127.0.0.1:pop.isp.net/110/bob", for example.
• Change the POP port in your email client to "8110".