secure IMAP applet

[Justin Georgeson]

One of the biggest reasons I like the combined nature of the mozilla 
suite is I get notified of new mail with just a browser window open. To 
my knowledge, the "inbox monitor" applet that comes with gnome does not 
support secure imap though (imap over ssl on port 993). Am I wrong? Can 
anyone recommend a sercure IMAP enabled GNOME panel applet? I don't want 
to have to leave thunderbird running unminimized in order to get new 
mail notifications, and don't want to send my password over the internet 
unencrypted.