This announcement was posted today:

It comes as great news for customers, as they will no longer have to open up their firewalls for outside access to their internal POP and SMTP servers.

However, the new method of Mail Forwarding means that the email is sent unencrypted to your servers. Correct? If this is so, some customers may not be happy that their customers' potentially sensitive questions must be sent over the Internet without encryption.

The previous method (POP polling) was more cumbersome, but the email could be protected in transit by SSL.

Can you comment on this? How can the new Mail Forwarding method be made secure? Or can there be the option to keep POP with SSL?

thanks -Ricardo