# Pop3 errors go unreported

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pop3-errors-go-unreported/71074
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pop3-errors-go-unreported/71074 "2017-09-29T23:48:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pop3-errors-go-unreported/71074/1 "2017-09-29T23:48:07Z")

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The SSL certificate on the mail server which one of my Discourse instances appears to have an issue.

I only saw this because went to /logs and viewed:

`Job exception: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: certificate verify failed`

The detail is:

```plaintext
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/pop.rb:553:in `connect'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/pop.rb:553:in `do_start'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/pop.rb:531:in `start'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_mailbox.rb:41:in `poll_pop3'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_mailbox.rb:16:in `execute'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:153:in `block (2 levels) in perform'

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 ![screenshot_2531](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/3/d31a9f47a9a0b85bce0d05465c032d9f25ee29c4.png)

I would have expected this to show in `/admin` just like we see sidekiq errors when those are present.

 ![screenshot_2532](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/4/e4745fea08e25d1e44f04c43751a7e4263648af9.png)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2017, 9:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pop3-errors-go-unreported/71074/2 "2017-09-30T09:01:26Z")

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Agree we should improve this