I got it! I had found the avast post you quoted above, Eric, and read through it a couple of times.
But what I wasn't figuring out was: Pocomail allows me to designate the listening port for the pop account and pocomail -- and also set up the listening port for avast without editing the avast file.
Uh. I don't know whether that's really what I meant to say.
Anyway, here's how to get avast+spamihilator+Pocomail to work.
1. Leave the avast settings alone so that it monitors port 110 by default.
2. Change the port in Spamihilator to a different one -- I used 120 as suggested in the Spami instructions/help files.
3. Set up the pocomail account as follows:
server: localhost:120
username: localhost&username#popserver.com&110
That makes it work.
BTW -- I used Spamihilator a long time ago, and the latest version has a Bayesian filter you can train. It takes MUCH less memory to leave it running than K9, as I see it on my machine anyway, so I want to try it a couple of weeks.
Thanks, Eric, for jogging my mind and working through combinations with me to get it working. I'll keep you and all my Pocomail friends here posted on how it works.
Gary Speer
EDITED TO REVISE THIS:
OKKKAAAYYY. Now I feel a bit like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
In the process of configuring the 20-some accounts I check in Pocomail, I left that "&110" off the backend -- and discovered it works fine without it, taking the email through avast AND spamihilator before sending it on to pocomail. So I guess that's not necessary -- though I could've sworn it did earlier.
