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You would not really want so many "private" ports exposed on a public facing machine.

A machine which has IMAP open tends to look like it has some good stuff.

I just forward incoming emails to an internal SMTP server which also serves as IMAP server, so MX records won't simply reveal your IMAP server as well.



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