Outgoing Ports? No POP/IMAP?

[hawleyal]

It appears as though several outgoing ports (including pop+ssl, imap+ssl) are blocked at the border firewall.

 

I built a script to test these outgoing ports.

 

I am trying to build a script to check all my email for me.

 

http://alexanderhawley.com/ruby/testports.rb

 

The results as of this posting:

 

google.com:80 (http): true

google.com:443 (http+ssl): true

pop.gmail.com:995 (pop+ssl): false

imap.gmail.com:993 (imap+ssl): false

smtp.gmail.com:25 (smtp): true

smtp.gmail.com:465 (smtp+ssl): false

talk.google.com:5223 (jabber): false

 

alexanderhawley.com:80 (http): true

alexanderhawley.com:443 (http+ssl): true

mail.alexanderhawley.com:110 (pop): true

mail.alexanderhawley.com:995 (pop+ssl): true

mail.alexanderhawley.com:143 (imap): true

mail.alexanderhawley.com:993 (imap+ssl): true

mail.alexanderhawley.com:25 (smtp): true

mail.alexanderhawley.com:465 (smtp+ssl): true

[daifan]