lukor
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Technical, as you probably know, SSL is designed to encrypt the connection in such a way that no one on the line, spying for the data, could decrypt the payload and make it readable. What makes a SSL pop dificult is not the process of obtaining the message via POP3 + SSL, as e.g. GMail Notifier does, but to trick the email program to think that it speaks to Gmail when in fact it speaks to a avast! Mail Scanner. This type of hijacking is known as “man in the middle” attack. I am not saying it is not feasible but goes agains the SSL encryption. Anyway, maybe avast! WILL support SSL connections in some future versions, it just doesn’t support them know - I doubt Vlk would ever say never 
Lukas.