[GTALUG] SSL Server Certificate

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Tue Jul 17 21:14:07 EDT 2018


On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 08:25:25PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote:
> Thanks very much for the informative and detailed reply, Jamon.  Following
> your example, I've now managed to get server certificate validation and
> ssl fingerprinting to work on Rogers, Office365, and Gmail (both pop and
> imap).  I'll have to learn someday the ins and outs of how it all works,
> but I'm pleased to say that I'm up and running on all counts, and have now
> officially switched from fetchmail to getmail.  (But I'm hanging on to my
> .fetchmailrc just in case.)

Why did you have to set up certificate for your machine?  I have Yahoo
and Gmail accounts, and I download emails via fetchmail simply with
user/password, without installing certificates (may be it's already
setup by Slackware distro).
-- 
William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>


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