Using Wi-Fi to send Password for Mail and MT-Newswatcher

I have been using a city sponsored Wi-Fi for a while, mainly to browse
the web and to download stuff from MacUpdate.

I use my earthlink account via dialup to send/receive email and to read
the newsgroups, because both of these require a password be sent to
earthlink to use.

Is there any way that I can use Wi-Fi to send/receive e-mail and to read
the newsgroups without making my passwords known to others?

I am on Macintosh OS 10.5.8 and I use Mail.app 3.6 and MTNewswatcher
3.5.3b3.

Thanks.

--- Joe

Joe <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Is there any way that I can use Wi-Fi to send/receive e-mail and to
> read the newsgroups without making my passwords known to others?

You could use IMAP/SSL, IMAP/TLS, or POP3/SSL for reading emails, SMTP/SSL
or SMTP/TLS for sending emails, and NNTP/SSL for reading/posting news. Try
ticking the "use SSL" and/or "use TLS" options in the appropriate client
application settings and seeing whether that works for you and your
service provider.

Chris