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  • src/sbbs3/ssl.c

    From Rob Swindell (on ChromeOS)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Tue Jul 8 21:43:38 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/1d0353858e00d5fade270854
    Modified Files:
    src/sbbs3/ssl.c
    Log Message:
    Better error reporting/handling when the ssl.cert file doesn't exist

    Since "Create self-signed certificate" defaults to No, it's normal/expected to not have an ssl.cert file in many cases and the logged errors were not very helpful. We should probably change the default for this setting to Yes
    (and have letsyncrypt.js disable it) or when auto-disable any SSH/TLS functionality that will expect a certificate file when the file doens't exist during initialization (startup or recycle). At least this change is a little bit of an improvement (help to the unknowing sysop). No longer just logging this unhelpful spew:
    7/8 21:23:05 mail 0055 SEND connecting to port 25 on mail.synchro.net [71.95.196.36]
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:06 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:07 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:08 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:10 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:14 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:22 mail Failed to open/read TLS certificate: /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert
    7/8 21:23:22 mail 0055 SEND/TLS [mail.synchro.net] ERROR 'Data has not been initialised' (-11) setting private key

    Thanks to Sam Alexander (BLUEBOX) for pointing this bad behavior out.

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