Re: smtp authentication fails

Hi Marc,

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Marc Greene wrote:

> > The certificate will not install into Pine, but into Linux/Windoozz
> > for Thunderbird anyway. But once found by Pine in the pinerc
> > directory, & you provide Pine MainMenu-Setup-Config smtp-server with
> > the correct smtp-server name & domain entry, it should work.
> 
> Tell me about it :)
> 
> The pine compile output gave me this warning:
> 
>   File /etc/ssl/certs/factory.pem is missing
>   This might indicate that CA certs did not get properly
>   installed.  If you get certificate validation failures
>   in Pine, this might be the reason for them.
> 
> I think that might be the problem, but I haven't been able to find out 
> what factory.pem is or why it wasn't installed by openssl, I'm still 
> looking into that.

You could try installing your GoDaddy certificate as 
/etc/ssl/certs/factory.pem.

> > After the certificate is located & provided for Pine to find, for
> > any further problems, double check certificate info, inbox-path &
> > SMTP-server name, domain name, for any prefixes - xxxx.lavabit.com,
> > etc. If the certificate is written wrong compared to the system it
> > certifies, the correct server name or certificate entry must be
> > determined & corrected. An SSH access into lavabit may offer a clue
> > as to correct server name via the command prompt.
> 
> I don't have SSH access into lavabit, but like I said, I'm pretty dang 
> sure "lavabit.com" is the correct server name to use.

Try "openssl s_client -connect lavabit.com:465" if you want to make sure.

The output will include the details of the certificate chain. The CN is 
the hostname that the server should be using, i.e. it should be 
lavabit.com.

Cheers, Chris.
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