On 06.06.02 17:04, Joseph N. Replied As Follows:

--- Original Message ---

> The "application" which my s/w firewall sees as Mozilla's browser is 
> Mozilla.exe, which is the same "application" which the firewall sees as the 
> mail program.  Since my browser is allowed to connect out to port 80, is 
> there any way to keep the mail program from connecting out to port 80?  I 
> want to avoid the executables and uninvited guests for which commercial 
> html mail sometimes phones home.
> 
> JN

http requests travel via port 80

POP3 requests travel via source port 110, makes no difference whether it
is html formmatted or text formatted.

-- 
Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI
UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
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