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 rcpthosts, but it still strikes me as strange to have to have port 25 open to receive messages, as I would have thought 110 would be the only required port. My coworker and I were talking about this and he suggested that when a mail is sent, it scans the SMTP port on the remote computer to validate that it is indeed a valid mail server. Is this what happens normally, or am I missing something? (P.S. When I do have 25 open, the toaster works great.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
