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-Examples
-========
+# Examples
 
 This directory contains examples of working with the IMAP client.
 
 Examples:
-  * basic - This is a very basic example of using the client.
-  * gmail_oauth2 - This is an example using oauth2 for logging into gmail as a secure appplication.
-  * idle - This is an example showing how to use IDLE to monitor a mailbox.
-  * rustls - This demonstrates how to use Rustls instead of Openssl for secure connections (helpful for cross compilation).
-  * starttls - This is an example showing how to use STARTTLS after connecting over plaintext.
-  * timeout - This demonstrates how to use timeouts while connecting to an IMAP server by using a custom TCP/TLS stream initialization and creating a `Client` directly instead of using the `ClientBuilder`.
+
+- basic - This is a very basic example of using the client.
+- gmail_oauth2 - This is an example using oauth2 for logging into gmail as a secure appplication.
+- idle - This is an example showing how to use IDLE to monitor a mailbox.
+- rustls - This demonstrates how to use Rustls instead of Openssl for secure connections (helpful for cross compilation).
+- starttls - This is an example showing how to use STARTTLS after connecting over plaintext.
+- timeout - This demonstrates how to use timeouts while connecting to an IMAP server by using a custom TCP/TLS stream initialization and creating a `Client` directly instead of using the `ClientBuilder`.
+- plaintext - This demonstrates how to make an unencrypted IMAP connection (usually over 143) with a `Client` using a naked TCP connection.
diff --git a/examples/plaintext.rs b/examples/plaintext.rs
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+use std::net::TcpStream;
+
+fn main() {
+    // REMINDER this is unsafe, the credentials are sent over the connection in CLEARTEXT
+    // Anyone or anything between this connection and the server can read your login creds!
+    // Please oh please do not use this where this is even a possibility.
+    match plaintext() {
+        Ok(conn) => {
+            eprintln!("Connection successful!");
+            println!("{:?}",conn);
+        },
+        Err(e) => {
+            eprintln!("Connection error!");
+            eprintln!("{:?}",e);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn plaintext() -> imap::error::Result<Option<String>> {
+    // Make a raw TCP connection to an UNSAFE IMAP server
+    let stream = TcpStream::connect("imap.example.com:143").unwrap(); // This is unsafe.
+    let mut client = imap::Client::new(stream);
+    client.read_greeting()?;
+    eprintln!("\nUNENCRYPTED connection made!!!!\n");
+    eprintln!("This is highly not recommended.\n");
+    // to do anything useful with the e-mails, we need to log in
+    let mut imap_session = client.login("user", "pass").unwrap();
+
+    // we want to fetch the first email in the INBOX mailbox
+    imap_session.select("INBOX")?;
+
+    // fetch message number 1 in this mailbox, along with its RFC822 field.
+    // RFC 822 dictates the format of the body of e-mails
+    let messages = imap_session.fetch("1", "RFC822")?;
+    let message = if let Some(m) = messages.iter().next() {
+        m
+    } else {
+        return Ok(None);
+    };
+
+    // extract the message's body
+    let mut body;
+    match message.body() {
+        Some(msg) => {
+            body = std::str::from_utf8(msg)
+                .expect("message was not valid utf-8")
+                .to_string();
+        }
+        None => body = "".to_string(),
+    }
+    // be nice to the server and log out
+    imap_session.logout()?;
+    Ok(Some(body))
+}