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

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Rob MacGregor schrieb:
> 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.
> 

Recent fetchmail versions should, if configured with sslfingerprint,
suppress the warning that Anne quoted. The fingerprint can be obtained from
fetchmail's verbose output.