WP Mail SMTP: when using SMTP mailer - disable SSL verify on PHP 5.6+

wpms-smtp-disable-ssl-verify.php

<?php

add_filter('wp_mail_smtp_custom_options', function( $phpmailer ) {
	$phpmailer->SMTPOptions = array(
		'ssl' => array(
			'verify_peer'       => false,
			'verify_peer_name'  => false,
			'allow_self_signed' => true
		)
	);

	return $phpmailer;
} );

Thank you, it works!

I was having SMTP failure because my corporate SMTP server uses a self-signed certificate.

My first attempt was to edit WordPress core file /wp-includes/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php with following class attribute values:
public $SMTPOptions = [ 'ssl' => [ 'verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false, 'allow_self_signed' => true ] ];

Although above solution worked, it triggered another issue: the plugin Wordfence complained "WordPress core file modified", which made sense to protect the WordPress core from being polluted.

So I kept search for better solution when I found this thread. I just added the codes into /wp-content/themes/{my-theme-name}/functions.php, and my WP Mail SMTP reported Email Test successfully.

Thank you, it works! (using Wordpress 6.0 and WP Mail SMTP Version 3.2.1)

It works, thank you. For those wondering where to put this, the cleanest possible way is to use the Code Snippets plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/