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Old 03-09-2008
fetchmail imap gmail certificate

Guys,

could you tell me how to create an imap gmail ssl certificate?

in my .fetchmailrc file I have

poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP user "xxxxx@gmail.com" there with password "xxxx" nofetchall keep ssl

but I'm getting an error

fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate

I'm on osx.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 03-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by c19h28O2
Guys,
poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP user "xxxxx@gmail.com" there with password "xxxx" nofetchall keep ssl
You dont need to create a cert, try this (which works for me for what its worth)

Code:
poll "imap.gmail.com" proto imap port 993
    user "user@gmail.com" password "pass"
    ssl

# 3  
Old 03-10-2008
Hi,

Thanks that worked, I'm now getting an

fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused.

error?

any ideas?
# 4  
Old 03-10-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by c19h28O2
Hi,

Thanks that worked, I'm now getting an

fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused.

error?

any ideas?
fetchmail is trying to email you the messages via the local server versus stuffing them in a file or what have you. You need to look at the documentation to determine what is best.

If you have no smtp server running on your osx machine and your trying to read mail with Mail.app, why not just imap the mail via Mail.app?
# 5  
Old 03-10-2008
Basically I'm trying to download the messages from my google account and forward them on but I'm struggling to get anywhere!
# 6  
Old 03-10-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by c19h28O2
Basically I'm trying to download the messages from my google account and forward them on but I'm struggling to get anywhere!
well with the smtpname and mda flags you should be able to do something, its not clear what 'forward them on' means.

Of course you can 'forward' with your gmail filters as well on the google side of things.

Code:
man fetchmailrc

# 7  
Old 03-10-2008
Sorry I'm not explaining myself very well am I!

Ok, I'd like my mac to download all of my google messages and forward them on to my yahoo account.

The reason for this is i'd like the mail to be forward in plain text rather than html (I'm not even sure fetchmail would convert them) as google has no option to forward in plain text so i'd like control of this....

Hope thats a little clearer.

Thanks
 
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