diff --git a/libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1.patch b/libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53e32c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 556f220..2c0693d 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ if test x$with_openssl != xno ; then
+ 	)
+ fi
+ if test x$with_openssl != xno ; then
+-	AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_library_init, [
++	AC_CHECK_LIB(ssl, SSL_new, [
+ 				with_openssl=yes
+ 				LIBS="-lssl -lcrypto $LIBS"
+ 		     ], [
+
diff --git a/libesmtp.spec b/libesmtp.spec
index b6308e4..e1901e7 100644
--- a/libesmtp.spec
+++ b/libesmtp.spec
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
 Summary:        SMTP client library
 Name:           libesmtp
 Version:        1.0.6
-Release:        15%{?dist}
+Release:        16%{?dist}
 License:        LGPLv2+
 Group:          System Environment/Libraries
 Source:         http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 URL:            http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/
 BuildRequires:  gcc
-BuildRequires:  openssl-devel pkgconfig
+BuildRequires:  openssl-devel pkgconfig autoconf automake libtool
+Patch0: libesmtp-1.0.6-openssl-1.1.patch
 
 %description
 LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic
@@ -35,6 +36,9 @@ necessary for building programs against libesmtp.
 
 %prep 
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1 -b .openssl-1.1
+
+autoreconf -fi
 
 # Keep rpmlint happy about libesmtp-debuginfo...
 chmod a-x htable.c
@@ -93,6 +97,9 @@ install -p -m644 -D libesmtp.pc $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libesmtp.pc
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libesmtp.pc
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 21 2018 Pawel Salek <salek@kth.se> - 1.0.6-16
+- apply the ssl patch from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1483350
+
 * Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.6-15
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild