Why does NM make my Gmail connect on non-secure?

Hi
just wondering why this is?
Does this now mean that my Gmail Username / Password is passed in plain text because its not on SSL??
This seems to be rather a serious security concern. I would like an answer to this question to determine if I continue with this mail product. I would rather have manual secure connection than insecure automation
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It would seem (after a discussion with Nokia care) that my concerns of security are unfounded.
The rep said that no user authentication was sent between the phone and my gmail. The pathway was that Nokia took my credentials (as discussed) at account creation and then harvested my mail and passed it on to my phone when it arrived.
I assume my phone must authenticate to Nokia when its online so as they know to push it up to me.
So to test this I put in a "lalala" password into my gmail account settings on the phone, restarted it to see if it would connect
It did
This at least allays my fears that password was being passed around in the clear. If it were connecting to Gmail with my phone based credentials it would not be able to connect with 'lalalala'
So clearly then only them mail content itself is passed in the clear.
I can live with that

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