Sylpheed-Claws and Gmail

I ran across several pages with solutions to the problem. Only problem for me was that none of them worked as stated.

But here is each step I had to take to get it working for me. Hopefully it will help someone else as well.

Remember, you will need to enable pop email from gmail first.

1. Get the Equifax Certification by going to here and saving the contents into the /etc/ssl/certs folder. Name the file Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.pem.

2. Download thawte-roots.zip from here. You will need to Enter information (Is not verified)

3. Unzip the file and rename ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.txt into ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.pem

4. Move ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.cer into the /etc/ssl/certs directory.

5. Open Terminal from /etc/ssl/certs.

6 Type in c_rehash.

7. mkdir /root/.sylpheed-2.0/certs (Creates a directory in ~/.sylpheed-2.0. Named certs.)

8. Type in cp * /root/.sylpheed-2.0/certs (Copies the new files just created in the new certs directory.)

This alone has fixed the problem according to some, but I had to take some additional steps, I have included them in the event anyone else comes across the same problem. (See Below)

Open sylpheed click on Configuration -> edit accounts. You are given the option to add a new account, from here enter the basic details and then under server for receiving enter pop.gmail.com and under smtp server put smtp.gmail.com.
Make the user id your gmail email address and the password the password you normally use to logon to gmail.

9. Go to the send tab and under Authentication Check SMTP Authentication, it is not needed to set username/pw at this location.

10. Go to the SSL tab:
       In Receive tab, check the box that is for Use SSL for POP3 connections,
       In Send check box for STARTTLS command to start SSL session.

11. Go to the Advanced tab and check the box for SMTP port and enter 995 for POP and 587 as SMTP.

Sylpheed should now be able to send and receive through gmail without error.