Re: [toaster] Opening ports on router

2005-04-22 Thread Tom Collins
On Apr 22, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Ryan Dorn wrote: It just kind of seemed odd to me that I had to leave SMTP open in order to receive messages, as I thought that was what POP3 was for. I was sending the mail from a yahoo address outside the network to an address on the toaster, and I checked the mail fr

[toaster] Opening ports on router

2005-04-22 Thread Ryan Dorn
Hey everyone, Just got the toaster installed and it works great. I don't know a whole lot about mail servers, but I do have one fairly simple question. Why must I have port 25 open on my router for my mail server to receive e-mail? It's not that big of a deal since I only have my domain name in r

Re: [toaster] Opening ports on router

2005-04-22 Thread Ryan Dorn
Ok, thank you for the quick response Bill. It just kind of seemed odd to me that I had to leave SMTP open in order to receive messages, as I thought that was what POP3 was for. I was sending the mail from a yahoo address outside the network to an address on the toaster, and I checked the mail from