Hello David Calvarese & everyone else,

on 15-Feb-2005 at 14:44 you (David Calvarese) wrote:

> Gmail SMTP uses SSL ports, not standard ones.  Do you know if that is
> blocked as well?  Lots of places block the normal ones but don't think
> to block the others.  In Gmail's case, SMTP is on port 465 and POP is
> on 995, but dedicated SSL ports.

It would be a lousy firewall admin that chose to block only certain ports.
The common approach is to block everything, then open only those ports that
are really needed. With a proxy, the clients usually don't have access to
anything outside the LAN.

-- 
Best regards,
 Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981)

History records the names of royal bastards, but it cannot tell us the
origin of wheat. -- Jean Henri Fabre


________________________________________________________
 Current beta is 3.0.2.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information:
http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first -
http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/

Reply via email to