Hi Tim,
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I use fetchmail to collect some of my email,
Can I assume that you are trying to use fetchmail to collect mail over
an SSL connection?
> and I've just started getting the following complaing:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 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 is unable to trust the certificate it received from the
server. It sounds like this is because it can't find the issuer's
certificate.
Usually an SSL client such as a web browser (or fetchmail in this case)
will have access to a database of trusted issuer certificates (such as
Verisign's). Any certificates which have been issued by a trusted issuer
will be trusted (as long as they are in date, and have not been revoked
etc).
It could be that you need to point fetchmail at such a database
so that it can trust the certificate supplied by your server.
Nick
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