fetchmail: benefits of having ssl certificate and fingerprint checking : <p>I am trying to decide on a new e-mail service. I use fetchmail to fetch my e-mail and process it using procmail. Some of the email services (etc. gmx.com, outlook.com, etc) do not seem to require the certificate and the fingerprint checked. Some others, such as inbox.com or gmail.com do. I am wondering if there is a security hole in going from the latter kind to the former. What is the value of the certificate checking? 
Sorry that i am not a cryptography guy but I would not like to have a security hole than needed.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>
