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

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

On Monday 20 Aug 2007, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> On 8/20/07, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> > Recent fetchmail versions should, if configured with sslfingerprint,
> > suppress the warning that Anne quoted. The fingerprint can be obtained
> > from fetchmail's verbose output.
>
> True, but I've been badly bitten by that before - ISP uses self-signed
> certificate, certificate is changed, mail no longer collected.  I get
> enough email that it became apparent within hours, but it still took
> me longer than I'd have liked to identify the problem.
>
> IMO sslfingerprint should only be used where it isn't possible to
> otherwise validate a certificate.

Mail is being collected - no problem there - just those warnings.

Anne