Re: [fetchmail-users] How to avoid these annoying reports

[Anne W. <can...@go...>]

On Saturday 18 Aug 2007, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On 8/18/07, Anne Wilson <can...@go...> wrote:
> > On Friday 17 Aug 2007, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > > On 8/17/07, Anne Wilson <can...@go...> wrote:
> > > > Fetchmail is collecting mail from several boxes on my new ISP's
> > > > server. I have suppressed the messages about how many messages were
> > > > collected, but I still get a set of
> > > >
> > > > fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed
> > > > certificate
> > > >
> > > > every few minutes.
> > >
> > > What version of fetchmail?  Are you running it from cron, or as a
> > > daemon?
> >
> > 6.3.6.  It's run from cron.
>
> 1) Upgrade to 6.3.8
> 2) Use daemon mode
> 3) Download the certificate by running the following TWO lines:
>
> openssl s_client -connect remote.server.net:993 </dev/null | sed -ne
> '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p'
>
> >/usr/local/openssl/remote.pem
>
> c_rehash
>
> Replace "remote.pem" and "remote.server.net" with relevant names.

Hi, Rob.  I've upgraded now, but I've not been able to run as a daemon.  I 
seem to have a path problem.

fetchmail --daemon 300
fetchmail: cannot open /home/anne/~/fetchmail.log: No such file or directory
fetchmail: fetchmail: Cannot detach into background. Aborting.

This when commanding as user.  I did wonder if root needed to start it, but I 
guess if that's so I'll have to feed it the user path somehow.

Can you help, please?

Anne