[tramahound]

I’ve installed Pine 4.58 on my G4 in the hopes of using it to check my .mac email.
I can’t manage to get anything sent or received however and have been unsuccessful finding any detailed information on how to properly set it up. When trying to send I get the following errors;

SSL/TLS CERTIFICATE VALIDATION FAILURE
Unable to get local issuer certificate

It then tells me to put ‘/novalidate-cert’ for my smtp folder if I want to send in the future without it checking for this certificate. Then it fails to send anyway giving me a
“Sending error: 553 5.3.0” error.
I had heard there was something to do with having your os x username the same as your .mac username, but I made a new account that uses the same name and received the same errors.
Any clues on how to fix this or a page that gives a tutorial on setting pine up with one’s dot mac email?
Thanks

[Mithras]

Post the relevant portions of your .pinerc?

[Curios Meerkat]

Check out the Pine+OpenSSL HOWTO and report back... keep in mind the certificates folder in OSX is /System/Library/OpenSSL/certs/

[tramahound]

you're giving me more credit than i deserve. what part(s) of the .pinerc file would be helpful? the ssh section?

[Mithras]

Originally posted by tramahound:
you're giving me more credit than i deserve. what part(s) of the .pinerc file would be helpful? the ssh section?

It's in the first 20-30 lines, where you set the SMTP and inbox:

# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail.
smtp-server=localhost

# NNTP server for posting news. Also sets news-collections for news reading.
nntp-server=

# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path=

[tramahound]

smtp.mac.com is set as the smtp server
nntp-server is blank that's for newsreading though isn't it? they block that port here at work anyway i think...
my inbox is blank too. that can't be normal...

[Mithras]

So you want to use your favorite text editor to make those two bits read like this:

Code:
# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses sendmail.
smtp-server=smtp.mac.com/user=YOURMACUSERNAME/ssl/novalidate-cert

...

# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox
# Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER).
inbox-path={mail.mac.com/user=YOURMACUSERNAME/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX

See if that works.

[tramahound]

Ok, so i basically do what it told me about not validating, but is that secure? I did it and was able to get my email fine. then i tried to send a test email and got the following error;
Error Sending: Can't connect to smtp.mac.com ...timed out
any ideas why that is?
Thanks for the help by the way