I'm trying mandrill. It looks cute. I registered with an account and received an api key. Download Mandrill PHP shell from https://bitbucket.org/mailchimp/mandrill-api-php
This post seems to have had a very good Mandrill greeting email example, so I tried it:
Simple php function to send email with Mandrill
Holds this error:
API call to templates/add failed: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)
I followed the instructions from these SO posts:
error sending email using Mandrill (php) HTTPS and SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE: certificate verification failed, CA is OK
Got a .pem file from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
and make sure curl api points to this file inside the Mandrill api
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, TRUE); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, "pathto/cacert.pem");
The .pem file is readable. There are no crazy permissions situations.
There is no help. Same deal:
API call to templates/add failed: Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)
Googling around I followed CentOS 6.0 steps here: http://kb.kerio.com/product/kerio-connect/server-configuration/ssl-certificates/adding-trusted-root-certificates-to-the-server-1605. html
Like the steps here: http://unitstep.net/blog/2009/05/05/using-curl-in-php-to-access-https-ssltls-protected-sites/
The same mistakes. As a last attempt, I installed curl to completely ignore ssl-step. This, of course, is not recommended, but I just wanted to feel the solid ground under my feet. I returned to Mandrill.php and did this.
curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
Again, the same mistake. I was wondering if anyone else could shed light on this for me. I have run out of Google. (This gave me a recaptcha because I used it too much). Thank you for your time!
(System: CentOS 6.5, PHP 5.3)