Topic: Port Forwarding question...

[Dave Wilson]

I just want to confirm something here...if I want to access my POP3 mail from a remote location I should set up my router to forward port 110 right?  If 'm wrong could someone please let me know or confirm if I am right?  Thanks!

[Trbonja]

In order to get that mail on to your mail server you have to forward port 25 as well -
ports 25 & 110 needs to be forwareded to your mail server also if ldap is used, 143. These are non secure (SSL) ports though.

Regards,
Trbonja

[Lynn]

If you have your own email server behind the firewall, you would forward ports 25 and 110 to that email server.

Port forwarding is for inbound traffic - not outbound. You dont forward if all you're doing is getting mail from some email server on the web.