Not quite what you say - removed
But
On public networks my servers block 110 and 143
This is pretty common practice I think
I don’t think you would have any issue if you disabled
SMTP initially negotiates unencrypted but upgrades to TLS


Cheers
DB

> On 4 Jun 2026, at 3:09 pm, Gary Bowling <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Has anyone removed all the unencrypted ports on your server?
> 
> I still have a bunch of people logging in with pop3, but I'm trying to get 
> users to change those. And port 25 is still configured on my server. I'm not 
> sure how much use that has.
> 
> I would like to get everyone off these ports and completely disable them on 
> my server. Not sure about port 25, whether that would cause a problem with 
> server-server communications, I need to do some checking to see how much that 
> is used.
> 
> Just curious if anyone else has done this or tried it and had problems. And 
> if there are any additional gotchas or things you need to configure if you 
> disable these.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Gary
> 
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