> From: jsp...@sun.ac.za [..] > 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!) [..] > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt108-w61bac6cecc26fdfd7c4122b8...@phx.gbl