fetchmail certificate verification messages

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 07), Marco Beishuizen said:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > CA Roots are also self-signed, btw :)  Addtrust is a valid CA Root, and is
> > the root for some certificates signed by Network Solutions and Comodo (and
> > probably others).  Marco, the fetchmail manpage mentions a --sslcertfile
> > option; try adding "--sslcertfile /etc/ssl/cert.pem" to force fetchmail to
> > use the ca_root_nss file you installed previously.  IMHO openssl should
> > automatically consult that file, but apparently it doesn't.
> 
> Where do I add the "--sslcertfile" option? I do have a /etc/ssl/cert.pem 
> file and fetchmail is started at boot-time (in rc.conf). The starting 
> script of fetchmail in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ isn't something to be changed 
> I think. Or do I add the option in the .fetchmailrc file?

It's a commandline option, and from reading the manpage, apparently can be
added to a fetchmailrc:

       Almost all options have a corresponding keyword which can be used
       to declare them in a .fetchmailrc file.
[...]
       --sslcertfile <file>
              (Keyword: sslcertfile, since v6.3.17)
              Sets the file fetchmail uses to look up local certificates. 
	
If you wanted to add it to the commandline, you could put this in your
/etc/rc.conf:  fetchmail_flags="--sslcertfile"



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