On Fri, 26 May 2000, you wrote:
> Hi everybody, I'm trying out gfcc the port configging app,
> so far I'm learning how to use it, I want to block all
> the ports except of course the ones I'm using on my server.
>
> I wish to leave open 21 for ftp, 80 for www, and 25 for mail,
> by the way, is the e mail server port just one for smtp and pop
> or does pop have one of its own? I am taking my mail directly
> off of my mail server with pine so maybe pop does not apply here??
I take advantage of this mail to ask a question I wanted to ask since long :
what are these "ports" ?
thank you,
Piero.
