diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5deabea..b541d62 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ lazy_static = "1.4"
 [dev-dependencies]
 lettre = "0.9"
 lettre_email = "0.9"
+rustls-connector = "0.8.0"
diff --git a/azure-pipelines.yml b/azure-pipelines.yml
index 66380c9..bfbe861 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines.yml
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ stages:
  # This represents the minimum Rust version supported.
  # Tests are not run as tests may require newer versions of rust.
  - stage: msrv
-   displayName: "Minimum supported Rust version: 1.32.0"
+   displayName: "Minimum supported Rust version: 1.36.0"
    dependsOn: []
    jobs:
      - template: azure/cargo-check.yml@templates
        parameters:
-        rust: 1.32.0
+        rust: 1.36.0
  - stage: test
    displayName: Test suite
    dependsOn: check
diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
index 7de0c82..b1bde9d 100644
--- a/examples/README.md
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ 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.
+  * rustls - This demonstrates how to use Rustls instead of Openssl for secure connections (helpful for cross compilation).
diff --git a/examples/rustls.rs b/examples/rustls.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e67e37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rustls.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+extern crate imap;
+extern crate rustls_connector;
+
+use std::{env, error::Error, net::TcpStream};
+
+use rustls_connector::RustlsConnector;
+
+fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
+    // Read config from environment or .env file
+    let host = env::var("HOST").expect("missing envvar host");
+    let user = env::var("MAILUSER").expect("missing envvar USER");
+    let password = env::var("PASSWORD").expect("missing envvar password");
+    let port = 993;
+
+    if let Some(email) = fetch_inbox_top(host, user, password, port)? {
+        println!("{}", &email);
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn fetch_inbox_top(
+    host: String,
+    user: String,
+    password: String,
+    port: u16,
+) -> Result<Option<String>, Box<dyn Error>> {
+    // Setup Rustls TcpStream
+    let stream = TcpStream::connect((host.as_ref(), port))?;
+    let tls = RustlsConnector::default();
+    let tlsstream = tls.connect(&host, stream)?;
+
+    // we pass in the domain twice to check that the server's TLS
+    // certificate is valid for the domain we're connecting to.
+    let client = imap::Client::new(tlsstream);
+
+    // the client we have here is unauthenticated.
+    // to do anything useful with the e-mails, we need to log in
+    let mut imap_session = client.login(&user, &password).map_err(|e| e.0)?;
+
+    // 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 body = message.body().expect("message did not have a body!");
+    let body = std::str::from_utf8(body)
+        .expect("message was not valid utf-8")
+        .to_string();
+
+    // be nice to the server and log out
+    imap_session.logout()?;
+
+    Ok(Some(body))
+}
diff --git a/src/client.rs b/src/client.rs
index 8ec0db9..f517a6c 100644
--- a/src/client.rs
+++ b/src/client.rs
@@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ macro_rules! ok_or_unauth_client_err {
 impl<T: Read + Write> Client<T> {
     /// Creates a new client over the given stream.
     ///
+    /// For an example of how to use this method to provide a pure-Rust TLS integration, see the
+    /// rustls.rs in the examples/ directory.
+    ///
     /// This method primarily exists for writing tests that mock the underlying transport, but can
     /// also be used to support IMAP over custom tunnels.
     pub fn new(stream: T) -> Client<T> {