What is the password mechanism using gmail,yahoo mail, hot-mail etc ?

How the user-name and passwords reaches to email server ?

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Usually over HTTPS which uses SSL in a web interface, or by SMTP/IMAP with SSL. You'd have to research all these mail providers on how they hash/store your credentials though.

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