SSL Certs

[Gregory Nowak]

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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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