I'm unable to get a gmail connection: Polling code in .fetchmailrc:
poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 user 'tim042849' there with password '******' is 'tim' here options ssl sslcertck sslcertpath /home/tim/.certs/ Response in logfile fetchmail: 6.3.9-rc2 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Wed 06 Oct 2010 11:41:18 AM AKDT: poll started fetchmail: Trying to connect to 74.125.53.109/995...connected. fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate 3091:error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed:s3_clnt.c:980: fetchmail: SSL connection failed. fetchmail: socket error while fetching from tim042...@pop.gmail.com fetchmail: 6.3.9-rc2 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Wed 06 Oct 2010 11:41:18 AM AKDT: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 #################################################################### The certificates were installed as per the tutorial at: http://www.axllent.org/docs/networking/gmail_pop3_with_fetchmail With the remote certificate installed using: wget -O equifax.pem https://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/certificates/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.cer Both of the certificate files have permissions of 644 and user is tim #################################################################### Unless I'm wrong, the key message is """ Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate """ Are my permissions correct? TIA -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.com