There is a bug with Pidgin, where the certificate for gmail.com cannot be validated.
The problem is discussed [here](https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/17118) and there is also a solution:
openssl s_client -showcerts -servername gmail.com -connect gmail.com:443
That outputs the certificate in terminal as it should, like [here](https://askubuntu.com/a/13838/47206) , but I don't know how to add that to Pidgin for a gmail account.
At the ticket/bug link it says
> this will retrieve correct certificate with CN=gmail.com
>
> after importing it into pidgin (Tools->Certificates) it should work
> fine
I have read that it should be saved in a text file in 
The problem is discussed [here](https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/17118) and there is also a solution:
openssl s_client -showcerts -servername gmail.com -connect gmail.com:443
That outputs the certificate in terminal as it should, like [here](https://askubuntu.com/a/13838/47206) , but I don't know how to add that to Pidgin for a gmail account.
At the ticket/bug link it says
> this will retrieve correct certificate with CN=gmail.com
>
> after importing it into pidgin (Tools->Certificates) it should work
> fine
I have read that it should be saved in a text file in ~/.purple/certificates/x509/tls_peers that should be called username@gmail.com, but that doesn't work.
Asked by user32012
Mar 15, 2017, 11:23 PM