Payal Rathod <payal-fetchmail(_at_)scriptkitchen(_dot_)com> writes:
Hi,
I am trying my friend's VPN and mailserver.
I have a simple fetchmail script like
poll example.com with proto pop3
user payal with password xxx is payal here
But when I run fetchmail, I get,
fetchmail: Server CommonName: localhost
fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost <ip address>
fetchmail: Warning: server certificate verification: self signed
certificate
Your friend's mailserver has a bogus certificate.
Have him or her fix that; and you'll also need to install his or her
"root certificate" (that (s)he use used to sign the server certificate)
into your SSL certificate directory.
Afterwards the mails do get downloaded but I am a bit worried that
this might take some time and bandwidth on my slow line.
The errors don't slow things down.
Well, does it? And if yes how can I avoid certificate checking?
You cannot. If you don't want certificates checked, don't use SSL.
The remote server is qmail.
Well, qmail-pop3d breaks the size information upstream, so expect heaps
of size mismatch warnings.
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Matthias Andree