Linux/Unix

pfSense 2.3 STARTTLS email notification problem

Posted on by Andy

When using email notification on pfSense 2.3 with STARTTLS i got the following error: 

Error: could not start TLS connection encryption protocol

This is due to PHP 5.6 which forces the certificate validation as a default. Here is the fix, hope that the upstream developers fix this in a future version:

open file /etc/inc/smtp.inc and find the following lines: 

if($this->debug)
    $this->OutputDebug('Starting TLS cryptograpic protocol');
############## ADD THIS BEGIN ########################
stream_context_set_option($this->connection, [
    "ssl" => [
        "verify_peer" => false,
        "verify_peer_name" => false,
        "allow_self_signed" => true
    ]
]);
############## ADD THIS END ##########################
if(!($success = @stream_socket_enable_crypto($this->connection,1,STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLS_CLIENT)))
    $this->error = 'could not start TLS connection encryption protocol';
else
{
    if($this->debug)
        $this->OutputDebug('TLS started');
    $success = $this->StartSMTP($localhost);
}

Installing PySide 1.2.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Posted on by Andy

Installing PySide 1.2.4 is quite easy and also has phonon support. Simply copy and paste following lines (line by line) to your terminal: 

# sudo apt-get install build-essential git cmake libqt4-dev libphonon-dev python2.7-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev qtmobility-dev libqtwebkit-dev python-pip
# pip install --upgrade wheel
# wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PySide/PySide-1.2.4.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf PySide-1.2.4.tar.gz
# cd PySide-1.2.4
# python setup.py bdist_wheel --qmake=/usr/bin/qmake-qt4 --standalone
# pip install dist/PySide-1.2.4-cp27-none-linux-x86_64.whl