diff -Nru postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/changelog postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/changelog
--- postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/changelog	2017-02-10 14:08:46.000000000 +0000
+++ postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/changelog	2017-04-27 10:43:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+postfixadmin (3.0.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * fix mysql connection problems (closes: #861260) see:
+    https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin/issues/38 and
+    https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin/commit/6ee85ac6cc427392a1d37339e45a5dbb4b96461c
+
+ -- Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>  Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:43:15 +0200
+
 postfixadmin (3.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=high
 
   [ David Goodwin ]
diff -Nru postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0002-dovecotpw.patch postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0002-dovecotpw.patch
--- postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0002-dovecotpw.patch	2017-02-10 14:08:46.000000000 +0000
+++ postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0002-dovecotpw.patch	2017-04-27 10:43:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
 --- a/config.inc.php
 +++ b/config.inc.php
-@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ $CONF['authlib_default_flavor'] = 'md5ra
+@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ $CONF['authlib_default_flavor'] = 'md5ra
  // for dovecot 1.x
  // $CONF['dovecotpw'] = "/usr/sbin/dovecotpw";
  // for dovecot 2.x (dovecot 2.0.0 - 2.0.7 is not supported!)
diff -Nru postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0003-mysql-connection.patch postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0003-mysql-connection.patch
--- postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0003-mysql-connection.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/0003-mysql-connection.patch	2017-04-27 10:43:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+--- a/functions.inc.php
++++ b/functions.inc.php
+@@ -1244,7 +1244,14 @@ function db_connect ($ignore_errors = 0)
+     global $DEBUG_TEXT;
+     if ($ignore_errors != 0) $DEBUG_TEXT = '';
+     $error_text = '';
+-    $link = 0;
++
++    static $link;
++    if (isset($link) && $link) {
++        if ($ignore_errors) {
++            return array($link, $error_text);
++        }
++        return $link;
++    }    $link = 0;
+ 
+     if ($CONF['database_type'] == "mysql") {
+         if (function_exists ("mysql_connect")) {
+@@ -1412,14 +1419,11 @@ function db_query ($query, $ignore_error
+     global $DEBUG_TEXT;
+     $result = "";
+     $number_rows = "";
+-    static $link;
++    $link = db_connect ();
+     $error_text = "";
+     if ($ignore_errors) $DEBUG_TEXT = "";
+ 
+-    # mysql and pgsql $link are resources, mysqli $link is an object
+-    if (! (is_resource($link) || is_object($link) ) ) $link = db_connect ();
+-
+-    if ($CONF['database_type'] == "mysql") $result = @mysql_query ($query, $link) 
++    if ($CONF['database_type'] == "mysql") $result = @mysql_query ($query, $link)
+         or $error_text = "Invalid query: " . mysql_error($link);
+     if ($CONF['database_type'] == "mysqli") $result = @mysqli_query ($link, $query) 
+         or $error_text = "Invalid query: " . mysqli_error($link);
diff -Nru postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/series postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/series
--- postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/series	2017-02-10 14:08:46.000000000 +0000
+++ postfixadmin-3.0.2/debian/patches/series	2017-04-27 10:43:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 0001-db_credentials.patch
 0002-dovecotpw.patch
+0003-mysql-connection.patch