tho SSL certificates cost quite a lot, and if you've got a domain name that's just going to get confiscated tomorrow there's a lot of risk in buying an SSL certificate that's got such a short useful life. (tho I suppose if you get enough suckers, it'll pay for itself?)
I've worked for three places so far that didn't consider ssl certs affordable. And with imap you either buy the cert, or deal with the cert warnings in your email reader. (thankfully fixed in recent versions of apple mail)
