How important is personal IMAP SSL for email?

I'm moving from Eudora and POP3 accounts for a POP3 or IMAP account in Thunderbird and I'm struggling with how to makeover. My mail server, web.com (which hosts my personal website), offers IMAP but does not offer SSL encryption for incoming e-mails or outgoing POP3 or IMAP. I read the advice to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/server-doesn ' t-use-encryption. However, I would like to hear a few knowledgeable people about the significance which they really believe this kind of security is used for personal messaging, and how would they advised I change e-mail providers (and so hosting websites) in order to have e-mail SSL processing. Because they are not SSL, I can't rely on objective advice from Web.com.

Thank you

MCM

In my view any email provider offering is not SSL/TLS will soon be out of business. Already today there email providers who refuse to deliver a message to another provider's e-mail server, if the server doesn't support SSL/TLS.
There is also a tendency to the SSL/TLS for the WWW, and we'll probably see almost 100% encryption at any given time.
Without SSL/TLS whenever you connect to your e-mail password will be sent in clear text, as well as the messages sent and received. The revelations of Snowden in mind, you can decide for yourself if this is something that you want or not.

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