[fetchmail-users] self-signed certs + fetchmail nuisance

[Volker K. <lis...@pa...>]

I just upgraded from SUSE 10.0 to 10.1, and with it to fetchmail 6.3.2.
Now I see that one of my email providers must have introduced TLS, but
with a self-signed cert. The first time cron mails me a

fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate

it's informative, but after the 1735th time the novelty value has worn a
bit.

How do I get rid of this? The manpage is not helping. I added an
sslfingerprint, no difference. I'm quite sure that mail from and to this
provider is not encrypted, so strong protection between me and the
provider is rather moot, but it does protect my download password. I'm
not concerned with making sure of getting the right fingerprint (there
alternative is using a clear text password). The server is obviously not
mine to fix. Surely there must be a better solution than turning off ssl
altogether, or filtering fetchmail-cron mail to /dev/null.

Please nobody suggest I shouldn't be using cron - I'd be happy to switch
to daemon mode if it allowed me to specify the fetch times for each
mailbox. (Yes I have a somewhat elaborate wrapper script which handels
periodic error mailing and logging.)

Thanks much,

Volker

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