SMTP Cert Expired?

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ringemup

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Jul 29, 2008, 1:27:45 PM7/29/08
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Hi folks,

I'm trying to send email from my desktop, but my email client keeps
complaining that the SSL certificate expired at 12:58pm EST today. Is
anyone else experiencing this problem?

Thanks

grznt

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Jul 29, 2008, 2:28:56 PM7/29/08
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i am not having this problem, but a co worker is having the problem
too.

Fuzzy Logic

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Jul 29, 2008, 2:44:55 PM7/29/08
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Yes. The Gmail team is aware of the problem and is working to fix it
as we speak.

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Announcements-and-Alerts-en/browse_thread/thread/0948f4f8b9ddb496#

Onno Benschop

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Jul 29, 2008, 7:24:18 PM7/29/08
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According to that link it is now "fixed".

However, I'm still seeing the issue.

In case this helps an engineer, smtp.gmail.com resolves like this:

Non-authoritative answer:
smtp.gmail.com canonical name = gmail-smtp.l.google.com.
Name: gmail-smtp.l.google.com
Address: 209.85.147.109
Name: gmail-smtp.l.google.com
Address: 209.85.147.111

Fuzzy Logic

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Jul 30, 2008, 8:08:57 AM7/30/08
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How is it this morning?

--
Latin: Dum spiro spero.
English: While I breathe, I hope.

Onno Benschop

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Jul 30, 2008, 6:57:15 PM7/30/08
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Still broken.

Onno Benschop

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Jul 30, 2008, 7:39:47 PM7/30/08
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Hmm, I've just been finding other posts about this and it appears that
Google changed from Thawte to Equifax, I'm still looking into this to
confirm, but I'll update here when I do.

Fuzzy Logic

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Jul 30, 2008, 11:56:41 PM7/30/08
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It is correct that they changed from Thawte to Equifax. I wonder if
you're failing to validate the CA cert and that is your failure.

Fuzzy

Onno Benschop

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Jul 31, 2008, 2:34:23 AM7/31/08
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Right, the fix for using smtp.gmail.com with ubuntu gutsy postfix is
this:

cat /etc/ssl/certs/Equifax_Secure_CA.pem >> /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
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