\n\tWhen using email notification on pfSense 2.3 with STARTTLS i got the following error:\n<\/p>\n
\nError: could not start TLS connection encryption protocol<\/pre>\n\n\tThis 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:\n<\/p>\n
\n\topen file \/etc\/inc\/smtp.inc and find the following lines:\n<\/p>\n
\nif($this->debug)\n $this->OutputDebug('Starting TLS cryptograpic protocol');\n############## ADD THIS BEGIN ########################\nstream_context_set_option($this->connection, [\n "ssl" => [\n "verify_peer" => false,\n "verify_peer_name" => false,\n "allow_self_signed" => true\n ]\n]);\n############## ADD THIS END ##########################\nif(!($success = @stream_socket_enable_crypto($this->connection,1,STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLS_CLIENT)))\n $this->error = 'could not start TLS connection encryption protocol';\nelse\n{\n if($this->debug)\n $this->OutputDebug('TLS started');\n $success = $this->StartSMTP($localhost);\n}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxunix","category-programming","category-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}