Exchange Firewall Ports The following table lists various protocols and their associated ports that might

be used in an Exchange implementation. Protocol Description SMTP POP3 Used to communicate with mail servers and by POP3 and IMAP4 clients to send mail. Note: SMTP with SSL is rarely used. Used to retrieve mail from an Exchange Server. Disabled on the Exchange server by default. Used to retrieve mail and other directories from an Exchange Server. Disabled on the Exchange server by default. Ports TCP 25 Using SSL, TCP 26

TCP 110 Using SSL, TCP 995 TCP 143 IMAP4 Using SSL, TCP 993 TCP 80 HTTP Used by Outlook Web Access for mail access. Using SSL, TCP 443 TCP and UDP 389 for Active Directory access LDAP Used to access information from Active Directory. TCP 3268 for Global Catalog access Used to retrieve information from Usenet servers on and TCP 119 NNTP enables sharing news group public folders. Using SSL, TCP 563 TCP 135 Used to establish an RPC connection (end point mapper) and TCP 1024 and above RPC also acts as an RPC client establishing sessions. (multiple ports are typically enabled) When contacting Active Directory, a DNS server must be DNS contacted for name resolution. The Exchange server uses TCP and UDP 53 DNS to find mail servers on the Internet Used for X.400 connections or connections to Exchange 5.5 MTA TCP 102 servers. Used for communication and authentication with Windows Kerberos TCP and UDP 88 2003 servers. IP protocol 51 for AH IP protocol 50 for ESP UDP 500 for key IPSec Used to secure server-to-server communications. exchange TCP and UDP 88 for Kerberos