You might consider using stunnel.  I think it's available for Windows 
(definitely for GNU/Linux).


Adrian Hicks


On Friday 09 September 2005 14:50, Jeff Buehler wrote:
> The risk of someone bothering to parse packets and retrieve your
> passwords in order to gain access to user email is, I think, extremely
> small unless you have information that people really want to read, in
> which case it is easy to do.
>
> In other words, almost anyone can get a password from plain text email,
> but almost no one in most cases of standard email would bother wasting
> their time.  On the other hand, if you have email or email accounts that
> need to be secure for specific reasons then it is mandatory that you use
> some form of encryption (such as SSL, etc.) because the email is easily
> read, and the passwords if passed in plain text are easy to retrieve.
>
> I hope that helps...
>
> Jeff
>
> Ross Gohlke wrote:
> >I have tried to install the patch linked from the XMail homepage:
> >http://mail.godeltech.com/xmail/
> >
> >My specs:
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