Outlook blocks outgoing mail when Avast turned on

I was using Microsoft outlook that has my Google account configured. I installed avast antivirus recently. Since then i was unable to send emails as i was getting the following message.

""Task 'pop.gmail.com-Sending' reported error (0x800CCC7D): "Your outgoing
(SMTP) server does not support SSL-secured connections. If SSL-secured
connections have worked in the past, contact your server administrator or
Internet service provider (ISP).'"


After much goggling and lots of trial and errors i could fix the problem by changing the outgoing mail server of my account to "smtp.googlemail.com" from "smpt.gmail.com" and setting the port to "465"