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| author | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2008-03-07 13:16:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2008-03-07 13:16:58 +0000 |
| commit | 3948bb44ff30ebda9837480c42de7f0d384e4cb9 (patch) | |
| tree | f81308db46bc55ae85e531f285481fd9966a0ea7 /fetchmail.man | |
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Merge Daniel Richard G.'s --sslcommonname option.
Exception from no-features policy on 6.3.X is made to keep people away from
doing more dangerous things in order to get rid of CommonName mismatch
warnings.
svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5165
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 2db1689c..6e4a254c 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -439,6 +439,18 @@ it - every time you add or modify a certificate in the directory, you need to use the \fBc_rehash\fR tool (which comes with OpenSSL in the tools/ subdirectory). .TP +.B \-\-sslcommonname <common name> +(Keyword: sslcommonname) +Use of this option is discouraged. Before using it, contact your +upstream and ask for a proper SSL certificate to be used. If the +upstream is clueless, this option can be used to specify the name +(CommonName) that fetchmail expects on the server certificate. A +correctly configured server will have this set to the hostname by which +it is reached, and by default fetchmail will expect as much. Use this +option when the CommonName is set to some other value, to avoid the +"Server CommonName mismatch" warning, and only if the upstream can't be +made to use proper certificates. +.TP .B \-\-sslfingerprint <fingerprint> (Keyword: sslfingerprint) Specify the fingerprint of the server key (an MD5 hash of the key) in |