It has taken a bit of fiddling around to get Sylpheed to work with gmail without getting errors surrounding the security certificates. Now that I have it working I thought it worthwhile to post this as a kind of a how-to for anyone else who may want to do this. Recent versions of Sylpheed say "The SSL certificate of pop.gmail.com cannot be verified by the following reason: unable to get local issuer certificate" when you attempt to pick up and send mail through a gmail account. You can hit "OK" to bypass this, but it is a nuisance to have to do that so this method will allow Sylpheed to find the local issuer certificate that it's looking for and stop giving the error. You need c_rehash installed, it comes as part of the openssh-perl rpm so "yum install openssh-perl" if you don't already have it. There are two certificates required. You need the Equifax certificate for receiving and the Thawte certificate for sending. First, make a directory under ~/.sylpheed-2.0 called certs. STEP 1: cd ~/.sylpheed-2.0/certs STEP 2: wget -O Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.pem \ https://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/certificates/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.cer STEP 3: Download thawte-roots.zip from http://www.thawte.com/roots, unzip it somewhere and copy ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.txt from that archive into the Sylpheed certs directory. STEP 4: mv ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.txt ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.pem STEP 5: c_rehash That's all there is to it. Now Sylpheed will send and receive through gmail without error. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
