> if I'm talking to my mailserver over HTTPS/IMAP TLS, I don't mind where the traffic is routed. You do unless you're using PGP for all your emails, because SM

> if I'm talking to my mailserver over HTTPS/IMAP TLS, I don't mind where the traffic is routed. You do unless you're using PGP for all your emails, because SMTP can be easily intercepted in plan-text. Of course, if you're using full end-to-end encryption (like PGP) for all your emails, you don't care so much about using HTTPS to fetch them, because you're using end-to-end encryption.