Summary

In this MailCow fork the database calls are all made using host and port, instead of using a unix socket.
Since the merge of the 2025-07 version, all those commands contains the --ssl=false or --skip-ssl parameters.

If we implement a mean to access an external database, we might want get rid of those parameters.

Motivation

Secure communication from inside containers to a db outside containers

Additional context

The parameters were added when the move was made from mysql commands to mariadb alternatives. This was done in mailcow#6026 with this comment about SSL :

Due to some changes in the future where SSL is enabled per default we strictly disable the communication via SSL as we use it to communicate to the mysql.sock anyways.