On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:03:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I've turned on logging in fetchmail because I'm curious about some
> claims that it (fetchmail, not loggign) does bad things. I find that
> every time fetchmail polls my ISP's imap server it writes the
> following messages into syslog:
> 
> Apr  3 12:40:02 big fetchmail[4337]: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost != 
> mail.mesanetworks.net
> Apr  3 12:40:02 big fetchmail[4337]: Server certificate verification error: 
> self signed certificate

It just means that the remote end haven't set up their server
certificate properly. Nothing to worry about, unless you're concerned
that their DNS might get hijacked and you're worried that you might one
day be fetching mail from someone who is not your ISP; good luck trying
to get them to fix it, though ;)

Cheers,

Paul

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Paul Dwerryhouse                                | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584
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