Still Confused With Mail Ports?

This article explains the most commonly used Email protocols on the internet – POP3, IMAP, and SMTP SMTP 25, 2525 SMTP-SSL/TLS 587,465 IMAP 143 IMAP-SSL/TLS 993 POP3 110 POP3-SSL/TLS 995 587 vs. 465 These port assignments are specified by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA): Port 587: [SMTP] Message submission (SMTP-MSA), a service that accepts submission of email from email clients (MUAs). Described in RFC 6409. Port 465: URL Rendezvous Directory for SSM (entirely unrelated to email)...

October 26, 2019 · 1 min · 157 words · Akhil Jalagam