Re: [fetchmail-users] CommonName mismatch after fetchmail upgrade

[thomas <tho...@gm...>]

2007/2/17, Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...>:
> > Maybe the certificate of my university is wrong, but the old version
> > of fetchmail had no problem to fetch the emails, so there must be a
> > workaround.
>
> The "old version" (you don't say which, but I suspect a pretty old
> one) obviously didn't attempt to support TLS.  Simply disable TLS:

Thanks a lot for your quick answer Rob, it works now.

I think the "old version" was 6.3.4-7. About the following version
shipped with Debian etch (6.3.6-rc3-1), I can read the following in
the distro-specific changelog:

fetchmail 6.3.5 and older had no way to enforce TLS. With those older
versions, TLS was always opportunistic, but fetchmail would happily
transmit the password in cleartext if STARTTLS failed. [...]
Configurations using --ssl --sslcertck however have been safe.

I think this is the reason why fetching emails worked until the
upgrade to 6.3.6. Anyway, problem fixed, re-thanks.

Thomas