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Email ports

SMTP, submission, POP3, IMAP and their TLS variants. 47 ports, most common first.

PortServiceTransportRiskEncryption
25 SMTP smtp TCP UDP 4/10 moderate optional
110 POP3 pop3 TCP UDP 6/10 high optional
995 POP3S pop3s TCP UDP 3/10 moderate yes
143 IMAP imap TCP 6/10 high optional
993 IMAPS imaps TCP 3/10 moderate yes
587 SMTP submission submission TCP UDP 3/10 moderate optional
465 SMTPS igmpv3lite, submissions, urd TCP UDP 3/10 moderate yes
50 Remote Mail Checking Protocol re-mail-ck TCP UDP - -
58 XNS Mail xns-mail TCP UDP - -
109 Post Office Protocol - Version 2 pop2 TCP UDP - -
209 The Quick Mail Transfer Protocol qmtp TCP UDP - -
220 Interactive Mail Access Protocol v3 imap3 TCP UDP - -
406 Interactive Mail Support Protocol imsp TCP UDP - -
512 used by mail system to notify users of new mail received; currently receives messages only from processes on the same machine biff, comsat, exec UDP TCP - -
691 MS Exchange Routing msexch-routing TCP UDP - -
854 Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) dlep TCP UDP - -
1143 Infomatryx Exchange imyx TCP UDP - -
1396 DVL Active Mail dvl-activemail TCP UDP - -
1397 Audio Active Mail audio-activmail TCP UDP - -
1398 Video Active Mail video-activmail TCP UDP - -
1556 VERITAS Private Branch Exchange veritas_pbx, veritas-pbx TCP UDP - -
2197 MNP data exchange mnp-exchange TCP UDP - -
2246 PacketCable MTA Addr Map pc-mta-addrmap TCP UDP - -
2593 MNS Mail Notice Service mns-mail TCP UDP - -
3007 Lotus Mail Tracking Agent Protocol lotusmtap TCP UDP - -
3264 cc:mail/lotus ccmail TCP UDP - -
3332 MCS Mail Server mcs-mailsvr TCP UDP - -
3436 GuardControl Exchange Protocol gc-config TCP UDP - -
3667 IBM Information Exchange infoexch TCP UDP - -
4190 ManageSieve Protocol sieve TCP - -
4310 Mir-RT exchange service mirrtex TCP UDP - -
4405 ASIGRA Televaulting Message Level Restore service ds-mail TCP UDP - -
4538 Software Data Exchange Gateway swx-gate TCP UDP - -
4569 Inter-Asterisk eXchange iax TCP UDP - -
4747 peer-to-peer file exchange protocol buschtrommel UDP - -
5157 Mediat Remote Object Exchange mediat TCP - -
5196 The protocol is used by two programs that exchange "table" data used in the AMPL modeling language ampl-tableproxy TCP - -
5429 Billing and Accounting System Exchange base TCP UDP - -
5682 BrightCore control & data transfer exchange brightcore UDP - -
6785 DGPF Individual Exchange dgpf-exchg TCP UDP - -
7300-7359 The Swiss Exchange swx - -
9060 CardWeb request-response I/O exchange CardWeb-IO, CardWeb-RT TCP UDP - -
12000 IBM Enterprise Extender SNA XID Exchange entextxid TCP UDP - -
19220 Client Connection Management and Data Exchange Service cora, cora-disc TCP UDP - -
28589 Building operating system services wide area verified exchange bosswave TCP - -
30939 Persistent peer-to-peer connections for block propagation, transaction relay, and BFT consensus message exchange. dilithium3 TCP UDP - -
35356 Gutters Note Exchange guttersnex TCP - -
01 Security

Securing email services

  • Require TLS and authenticated submission.
  • Make sure the server is not an open relay.
  • Publish SPF, DKIM and DMARC for the domain.
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