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 my linux box using Thunderbird.
Once again, thanks for the help and the speedy response! Toaster is excellent. --- Bill Shupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Dorn wrote: > > 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.) > > smtp uses port 25, pop is 110. If you want to > receive mail on this > system from a remote network, it will be done over > smtp. Picking up > your mail from this system is done via POP commonly. > > Bill > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
