AWS SES Error: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

Question:

I’ve been banging my head against the table with this one for a while now. I’m. I’ve successfully sent emails locally using an AWS access key and secret that has full access. Once I deploy to my staging environment I get an error using the same access key and secret.

RequestError: send request failed\ncaused by: Post https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

Please help!

Answer:

If you are using alpine docker image for example:

After adding root certificates ca-certificates, it will be working fine.

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