IPhone mail with my home wifi

I have set up my iMac to share it's ethernet connection via it's internal airport extreme card. This allows me to use my iphone with wifi around my home. I have since discovered that in order to collect gmail on my phone using 'mail' I have to open port 993 on my computer. I have managed this by stopping my iMac's firewall all together but I would prefer to find out how I can just open port 993.
Any ideas how I can achieve this?
Thanks,
Julian
UK

Hello Julian,
I did some searching and couldn't find a straightforward solution. Since this is primarily an iPhone user to iPhone user forum, you might get more useful information in the Networking forum. It's worth a try.
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=733
Good luck,
Charles H.

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