A) if your port is using SSL, without SSL middleman inspection, firewall will do you no good what so ever
B) the port is still open. You are still telling crawlers you have an email server there. Value of this information comes to play when there is a new vulnerability in the server software or the firewall.

Just to clarify, this discussion is somewhat theoretical, but I figured still worth having...
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