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it appears the diag_smart is broken.
For example, its has
$start_script = "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd.sh";

and it is used once for a stop and start. But that script
doesn't exist. It is at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd (no ".sh" at end).

Anyways, I now see the code there is marked with //FIXME.

The smartd -M test is used to test configuration.

Also in diag_smart, it tries to put email address into
/usr/local/etc/smartd.conf but that file doesn't exist.
Then it does an attempted HUP of smartd but that daemon is not running.
Also the user interface is not intuitive. I'd suggest it
have options to enable the service,
and that the "Send test email" button should be available even
if email address is not saved; I didn't test but I think
can be done like:

echo /dev/sda -m foo@host -M test | smartd -c - -q onecheck

(By the way, it is interesting to have such a detailed
disk monitoring service, so it would be just as important
to have a network device and network in general monitoring service;
I understand sending email may not work, but it could check
for some "predictive" failures and send warning before network is down.)

(My list of bugs is at http://reedmedia.net/books/pfsense/bugs-20160813.html )