But then the password is still travelled through plain text from myshell.com to softhome.net
got it in one
Then what is the use of encryppted tunnel?
typically you would tunnel localhost:110 on the shell server to your box - so that tunneling thing is useful if you have a non SSL capable pop3 or imap account on a remote shell server.
typically you are better off finding a pop3 or imap server which supports TLS
suresh
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