If you are curious as to whether or not your communications are actually
encrypted or not, you can use the -snoop flag to the POP or SMTP utilities.
-Communication that is encrypted is preceeded by an (encrypted) or
+Communication that is encrypted is preceded by an (encrypted) or
(decrypted), depending on the direction of communication.
If you would like to use the GSSAPI SASL mechanism (Kerberos V), you