Mail settings and firewall settings (they go hand and hand)

Hi, could someone please tell me if I have the correct or best settings for my OS X server.
I am currently using the following:
SMTP - 25 AND SSL IS CHECKED
WEB - 80
POP3 - 110
IMAP - 143
HTTPS - 443
SMTP SSL - 465 REQUIRES SSL
IMAP SSL - 993 AND SSL IS CHECKED
POP3 SSL- 995
I want to get my emails ALL switched over to SSL then delete all NON-SECURE ports.
I would also like to send outgoing mail SSL if that is possible.
Thanks in advance!
Hal

Add on to Camelot's post... "You have no control over whether outgoing mail from the server uses SSL or not. That depends on whether the remote mail server supports SSL and there's no way you can predict or control that. "
So the SMTP SSL option should be "use" and not "require". Also, the Mac OS X version of SMTP over SSL operates not on the traditional port 465, but on port 25, the standard SMTP port, using TLS. Port 25 is the default port in Apple Mail client if SSL is 'ticked' in this but other mail clients may need it explicitly set.
-david

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