how to fix stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operation failed with code 1

stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operation failed with code 1.
OpenSSL Error messages: error:14090086:SSL
routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

Im using Laravel 4.2, PHP 5.6, Apache 2.4

I have GoDaddy SSL installed in Amazon ec2 Linux.

SSL working fine when i visit the site with https.

The error happened when I call my function :

<?php
public function sendEmail()
{ \Mail::send ( 'emails.code.code', $data, function ($sendemail) use($email) { $sendemail->from ( '', 'Me Team' ); $sendemail->to ( $email, '' )->subject ( 'Activate your account' ); } );
}
?>

I read some articles about this, they said that there are things we should make some changes, they put that code but i don't know where to insert it.

Been reading this:

and this documentation of php which is hard to understand.

So my question is how to solve this problem?

15 Answers

Editor's note: disabling SSL verification has security implications. Without verification of the authenticity of SSL/HTTPS connections, a malicious attacker can impersonate a trusted endpoint such as Gmail, and you'll be vulnerable to a Man-in-the-Middle Attack.
Be sure you fully understand the security issues before using this as a solution.

You can add below code in /config/mail.php ( tested and worked on laravel 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 )

'stream' => [ 'ssl' => [ 'allow_self_signed' => true, 'verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false, ],
],

Editor's note: disabling SSL verification has security implications. Without verification of the authenticity of SSL/HTTPS connections, a malicious attacker can impersonate a trusted endpoint such as Gmail, and you'll be vulnerable to a Man-in-the-Middle Attack.
Be sure you fully understand the security issues before using this as a solution.

I have also this error in laravel 4.2 I solved like this way. Find out StreamBuffer.php. For me I use xampp and my project name is itis_db for this my path is like this. So try to find according to your one

C:\xampp\htdocs\itis_db\vendor\swiftmailer\swiftmailer\lib\classes\Swift\Transport\StreamBuffer.php

and find out this function inside StreamBuffer.php

private function _establishSocketConnection()

and paste this two lines inside of this function

$options['ssl']['verify_peer'] = FALSE;
$options['ssl']['verify_peer_name'] = FALSE;

and reload your browser and try to run your project again. For me I put on like this:

private function _establishSocketConnection()
{ $host = $this->_params['host']; if (!empty($this->_params['protocol'])) { $host = $this->_params['protocol'].'://'.$host; } $timeout = 15; if (!empty($this->_params['timeout'])) { $timeout = $this->_params['timeout']; } $options = array(); if (!empty($this->_params['sourceIp'])) { $options['socket']['bindto'] = $this->_params['sourceIp'].':0'; } $options['ssl']['verify_peer'] = FALSE; $options['ssl']['verify_peer_name'] = FALSE; $this->_stream = @stream_socket_client($host.':'.$this->_params['port'], $errno, $errstr, $timeout, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, stream_context_create($options)); if (false === $this->_stream) { throw new Swift_TransportException( 'Connection could not be established with host '.$this->_params['host']. ' ['.$errstr.' #'.$errno.']' ); } if (!empty($this->_params['blocking'])) { stream_set_blocking($this->_stream, 1); } else { stream_set_blocking($this->_stream, 0); } stream_set_timeout($this->_stream, $timeout); $this->_in = &$this->_stream; $this->_out = &$this->_stream;
}

Hope you will solve this problem.....

Try changing the app/config/email.php

smtp to mail

How to fix on Laravel (5,6,7 at least), WordPress (and other PHP + cURL implementations I guess):

Download the latest cacert.pem file from cURL website.

wget

Edit php.ini (you can do php --ini to find it), update (or create if they don't exist already) those two lines:

curl.cainfo="/path/to/downloaded/cacert.pem"
...
openssl.cafile="/path/to/downloaded/cacert.pem"

Those lines should already exist but commented out, so uncomment them and edit both values with the path to the downloaded cacert.pem

Restart PHP and Nginx/Apache.

Edit: You may need to chown/chmod the downloaded certificate file so PHP (and the user running it) can read it.

source

Editor's note: disabling SSL verification has security implications. Without verification of the authenticity of SSL/HTTPS connections, a malicious attacker can impersonate a trusted endpoint such as Gmail, and you'll be vulnerable to a Man-in-the-Middle Attack.
Be sure you fully understand the security issues before using this as a solution.

Easy fix for this might be editing config/mail.php and turning off TLS

'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', ''), //'tls'),

Basically by doing this

$options['ssl']['verify_peer'] = FALSE;
$options['ssl']['verify_peer_name'] = FALSE;

You should loose security also, but in first option there is no need to dive into Vendor's code.

edit your .env and add this line after mail config lines

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=""

Save and try to send email

This start to happen today in one of my servers using wordpress with a plugin that uses PHPMailer, with no recent changes.

The solution: sudo yum install ca-certificates

Now It works again perfectly, I did also an httpd restart (not sure if needed)

I can't figure out the real problem, I suspect that was a hardcoded date in the old ca-certificates package.

To resolve this problem you first need to check the SSL certificates of the host your are connecting to. For example using ssllabs or other ssl tools. In my case the intermediate certificate was wrong.

If the certificate is ok, make sure the openSSL on your server is up to date. Run openssl -v to check your version. Maybe your version is to old to work with the certificate.

In very rare cases you might want to disable ssl security features like verify_peer, verify_peer_name or allow_self_signed. Please be very careful with this and never use this in production. This is only an option for temporary testing.

Finally! it was my AVG antivirus, it has a feature called email shield, disabled it and the error was gone.

Go to vendor\swiftmailer\swiftmailer\lib\classes\Swift\Transport\StreamBuffer.php

comment line 250 and add this line:

//$options = [];
$options['ssl'] = array('verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false, 'allow_self_signed' => true);

for Laravel 5.4
for gmail

in .env file

MAIL_DRIVER=mail
MAIL_HOST=mail.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=<username>@gmail.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=<password>
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

in config/mail.php

'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'mail'),
'from' => [ 'address' => env( 'MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', '<username>@gmail.com' ), 'name' => env( 'MAIL_FROM_NAME', '<from_name>' ),
],

in my case i did following

$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = '<YOUR HOST>';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = '<USERNAME>';
$mail->Password = '<PASSWORD>';
$mail->SMTPSecure = '';
$mail->smtpConnect([ 'ssl' => [ 'verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false, 'allow_self_signed' => true ]
]);
$mail->smtpClose();
$mail->From = '<>';
$mail->FromName = '<MAIL FROM NAME>';
$mail->addAddress("<>", '<SEND TO>');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject= '<SUBJECTHERE>';
$mail->Body = '<h2>Test Mail</h2>';
$isSend = $mail->send();

change encryption type from SSL to TLS works form me.

Reading app/config/mailphp

Supported : "smtp", "mail", "sendmail"

Depending on your mail utilities installed on your machine, fill in the value of the driver key. I would do

'driver' => 'sendmail',

$default = [ ... ];
$turnOffSSL = [ 'stream' => [ 'ssl' => [ 'allow_self_signed' => true, 'verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false, ], ],
];
$environment = env('APP_ENV');
if ($environment === 'local') { return array_merge($default, $turnOffSSL);
}
return $default;