Andreas Aardal Hanssen writes:
If the current protocol says that the client should either use TLS or SSL, then I suppose connecting to it through "stunnel" makes the connection to the IMAP server a plain-text connection.Well, it doesn't. The near-future protocol says that.
I'll give good odds that current clients to remain in use for a while, including clients that connect via SSL or SSH tunnels, and thus are seen as plaintext connections from localhost.
--Arnt
