Greetings, Scott Kitterman!

> I am looking at some of the two decades of accumulated cruft in the Debian bug
> tracking system for the Postfix package.  I came across an old bug with a 
> patch that appears never to have been incorporated (no sign ups required):

> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400395

> I've attached the patch (it's very old, but at a glance it doesn't look like 
> the relevant code has changed much).

> No one in Debian who works on Postfix uses the mysql bits.  Is there anyone 
> that is using it that thinks it's worth updating and seeing if it can be 
> incorporated?

For SSL support, it's only worth it if connection stays open for prolonged
periods of time.
If it's usual connect-work-disconnect type of operation, SSL will only
increase system load without any obvious gains.
If you need secure connection to your SQL server badly, setup an encrypted
tunnel.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, December 13, 2018 15:17:56

Sorry for my terrible english...

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