It seems like I go through this sort of thing every couple of months. Some kind of email retrieval issue crops up, typically involving SSL. Luckily, I take the time to jot it down so I can refer back in case it’s a repeat. Today’s problem turned out to be something new, so it now gets its own place here on the blog.
I noticed yesterday that I was not receiving mail from one of my mail accounts. I’m a fetchmail user, so I immediately went to the log file. I won’t reproduce the exact message, but essentially fetchmail couldn’t validate the ssl certificate from the server because it didn’t think I had the appropriate root certificate.
And just like that, I was off on another expedition into the wonderful land of computer administrivia.