SSL Certs

[Christopher Moore]

Steve,
Iwould also check your gmail port.  I think it may use something other than 
port 110 which is the default for fetchmail.\
Chris
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: SSL Certs


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> Hi Steve.
>
> Don't worry about it. All that message means is that the certificate
> used by the server wasn't signed by a trusted certifying
> authority. This doesn't effect your ability to retrieve mail, or the
> security of the connection itself. This message is to be expected if
> the certificate isn't signed by a TCA.
>
> As for an explanation of ssl, certificates, ETC., I'd suggest looking
> at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer
>
> Hth.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:32:58PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> First, I need to express my ignorance about SSL and how certs work but
>> that aside, I have a question and wonder if anyone can help.
>>
>> When I try to use Fetchmail to get some mail from gmail using an SSL
>> option, I get cert verification errors which I will show later in this
>> message.  First, I'll include my .fetchmailrc with id/password
>> filtered and then I'll follow that with a script of the session.
>>
>> poll pop.gmail.com proto pop3
>> localdomains holmesgrown.com no dns
>> user steve.holmes88 at gmail.com pass ???? is steve here ssl
>> #mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d  %T"
>>
>> I then use the fetchmail command with no options using the config
>> above but note the errors below.
>>
>> Script started on Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:19:15 PM MST
>> steve at pillow:~$ fetchmail
>> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local 
>> issuer certificate
>> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted
>> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the 
>> first certificate
>> fetchmail: No mail for steve.holmes88 at gmail.com at pop.gmail.com
>> steve at pillow:~$ exit
>> exit
>>
>> Script done on Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:19:51 PM MST
>>
>> Any ideas on why it can't validate the certs or where even to find
>> them if needs be?
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
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