<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 05/18/2009 03:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1242686148.3982.32.camel@bree.homelinux.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 22:18 +0100, Adel ESSAFI wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: imap.gmail.com != pop.gmail.com </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I'm guessing that Gmail's SSL certificate uses imap.gmail.com instead of pop.gmail.com. Read the section on --sslcommonname in fetchmail(1). poc </pre> </blockquote> Your error seems to point at smtp set up on your local server: fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [<a href="http://127.0.0.1/25">127.0.0.1/25</a>] failed: Connection refused. fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from <a href="mailto:xxx@pop.gmail.com">xxx@pop.gmail.com</a> and delivering to SMTP host localhost fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) Although I also see the error mentioned it retrieves the mail: fetchmail -u slwetmore pop.gmail.com --keep --ssl Enter password for <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:slwetmore@pop.gmail.com:">slwetmore@pop.gmail.com:</a> fetchmail: Server CommonName mismatch: imap.gmail.com != pop.gmail.com 1 message for slwetmore at pop.gmail.com. reading message <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:slwetmore@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1">slwetmore@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1</a> of 1 (2111 header octets).. (39 body octets) not flushed </body> </html>