Thanks for your reply, Marc.
I'm already using an stunnel, but want to use the native SSL support
MySQL offers. Having a tunnel just creates another point of failure and
one more software to have to watch for vulnerabilities. ;)
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 06:34 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I haven't don'e it with ssl but I have done it using an ssh tunnel which
> I think is better because it gives to compression as well. I use autossh
> which will reconnect automatically if the connection is ever broken.
>
> autossh -M 3333 -f -N -C -L 127.0.0.3:3306:localhost:3306 bigdog.ctyme.com
>
>
> xyon wrote:
> > Hey Everyone,
> >
> > Has anyone ever used exim with a remote mysql server using ssl?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:04 -0400, xyon wrote:
> >
> >> Hey Everyone,
> >>
> >> I've been running exim which queries a remote MySQL server over an
> >> stunnel, but would like to use MySQL's inherent SSL functions. Is this
> >> possible with exim? I changed the '/etc/my.cnf' '[client]' section to
> >> define the key/cert/csa, and proftpd picked it up great, but exim
> >> doesn't seem to. I checked the exim docs under MySQL and didn't see any
> >> reference to SSL. Is it not possible to use MySQL's native SSL support
> >> with exim?
> >>
> >>
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