Re: [exim] Exim MariaDB and SSL

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Author: Brent Clark
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To: Odhiambo Washington
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim MariaDB and SSL
I came across this

https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20180514.215522.0efe8d21.gl.html

Im trying to make heads or tails of this.

Regards
Brent

On 2022/11/01 09:10, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 9:39 AM Brent Clark via Exim-users
> <exim-users@???> wrote:
>
>     Good day Guys

>
>     I would like to run exim to use MariaDB's inherent TLS / SSL
>     functions.

>
>     Is this possible with exim? I changed the '/etc/my.cnf' '[client]'
>     section to define the key/cert/csa, and Dovecot 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?

>
>     If anyone can please share their 'hide mysql_servers', it would be
>     appreciated.

>
>     Regards
>     Brent Clark

>
>
> According to the documentation, the options for Exim to connect to a
> MySQL instance remain:
> hide mysql_servers =  <hostname>::<port>(<socket
> name>)/<database>/<user>/<password>
>
> Now unless you make a feature request to add the options to secure
> that connection with SSL, I believe there is no such option at the moment.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
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