On Sat, Dec 30, 2006, M. Fioretti wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On a Centos 4.4 server I have generated a self signed certificate
> following exactly the procedure at
> http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html
> 
> That certificate works perfectly with Apache. Thanks to it I can now
> access my web pages on that server in https mode. But the same
> certificate is useless with fetchmail, when I try to download email
> via secure IMAP.
> 
> 1) I have copied the certificates in my home suse 10.1 box and done
>    this (from http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/postfix_tutorial.html)
> 
> # cp *pem /usr/share/ssl/my_certs
> # cd /usr/share/ssl/my_certs
> # openssl x509 -in myserverCert.pem  -fingerprint -subject -issuer -serial 
> -hash -noout
>       
>   SHA1 Fingerprint=the whole fingerprint here
>   subject= /C=IT/ST=Italy/L=Rome/O=my company/OU=My 
> Server/CN=myserver.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   issuer= /C=IT/ST=Italy/L=Rome/O=my company/OU=My 
> Server/CN=myserver.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> serial=01
> e2b344d2
> # c_rehash .
> Doing .
> myserverCert.pem => e2b344d2.0
> WARNING: myserverPrivateKey.pem does not contain a certificate or CRL: 
> skipping
> 
> 
> 2) I run fetchmail with this rc file:
> 
> set logfile "/$HOME/.log_fetchmail"
> set postmaster "me"
> set nobouncemail
> set properties ""
> #set daemon 60
> set no syslog
> 
> poll myserver.net  with proto imap
>    user remoteuser there with pass "thepassword" is me here sslcertck 
> sslcertpath /usr/share/ssl/my_certs  sslfingerprint "thefingerprint"
> 

Does the my_certs directory contain the above server certificate and have you
done c_rehash on it?

Steve.
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