fetchmail ssl certificate verification problem in FreeBSD 8.1

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 16 00:57:52 UTC 2010


On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
Dan Strick <mla_strick at att.net> wrote:

> That explains the problem.
> I copied the file /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt from my old
> FreeBSD release-8.0 system and hooked it up to fetchmail with the
> fetchmail sslcertfile option.  At least fetchmail is now happy.

You'd be better off installing security/ca_root_nss otherwise you'll be
stuck with a stale file.

I don't know why you don't have it, it's a dependency of fetchmail and
many other ports.


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