On Tuesday 07 December 2004 15:28, David Sheryn wrote:
With fetchmail I get the error message:
[tim@william ~]$ fetchmail alfred fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: localhost.localdomain != alfred
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This would appear to be you problem. You have an identity crisis somewhere. Either your laptop or you dektop (or both) are confused as to their (LAN, i.e. IP) network identity (note that this has nothing to do with UUCP -- unless, of course, you are attempting to run UUCP over IP which would be ill-advised.)
It's not at all obvious where the misconfig lies, but I'd start with host files / interface configs.
I'm sure you are right that this is where the problem lies. Unfortunately I don't know what the solution is. There is no "identity crisis" normally, as I ssh from one machine to the other with no problem, and eg keep a yum repository on the desktop which I use to update Fedora-3 on the small number of machines on my two little LANs (Ethernet and WiFi).
I googled for this error "Server CommonName mismatch" and found dozens fo hits, but none of them seemed to suggest a concrete solution.
What slightly puzzles me is that dozens of people must be using dovecot for more or less the purpose I envisage - otherwise what are they using it for - so my little problem must have arisen many times before.
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