RE: Fetchmail certificate problem
> From: jspies@sun.ac.za
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> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
> fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for /C=US/ST=Someprovince/L=Sometown/O=none/OU=none/CN=localhost/emailAddress=webaster@localhost) is not in the trusted CA certificate locations, or that c_rehash needs to be run on the certificate directory. For details, please see the documentation of --sslcertpath and --sslcertfile in the manual page.
> fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing
> anyways. (Better use --sslcertck!)
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> fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != alterit.co.za
This might still cause a problem when you get the certificate working.
> The service provider sent me a certificiate which I did put in the path
> referred to in the configuration but it did not solve the problem.
/etc/ssl/certs is a managed location (yes, I know, not strictly FHS compliant).
You need to put the certificate in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates (from memory, please double-check with the ca-certificates documentation) and re-run update-ca-certificates.
Regards,
Arno
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