nixos-mailserver VS napalm

Compare nixos-mailserver vs napalm and see what are their differences.

nixos-mailserver

A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver (by r-raymond)

napalm

Support for building npm packages in Nix and lightweight npm registry [maintainer @jtojnar] (by nix-community)
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nixos-mailserver napalm
2 2
174 101
- 2.0%
10.0 6.1
almost 6 years ago 4 months ago
Nix Nix
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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nixos-mailserver

Posts with mentions or reviews of nixos-mailserver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-22.
  • Rust grows boobs, C grows chest hair
    1 project | /r/transprogrammer | 3 Jul 2023
    nix can refer to nixos, which is build around nix the packagemanager, which uses nix the programming language for buildscripts, etc. you can also use the nix language for things like a mailserver
  • Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2022
    I’ve been using this https://github.com/r-raymond/nixos-mailserver for 4 years for my personal mail and I haven’t had a single issue in that time. I think it takes me about the same amount of time as you to maintain but I also have a next cloud server running on the same machine.

napalm

Posts with mentions or reviews of napalm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-09.
  • niv, naersk, napalm: moving on
    7 projects | /r/NixOS | 9 Jul 2021
    I created https://github.com/nmattia/napalm/issues/34 and https://github.com/nmattia/naersk/issues/183 to move them to nix-community
  • NixOS 21.05 Released
    39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2021
    Sure. NPM is the easy case because the package-lock.json file can easily be read by Nix and contains hashes for all of the packages. This means that simply be importing the file into Nix you can have a reproducible build. No Nix-specific maintenance required.

    In the linked case I use this library to manage that https://github.com/nmattia/napalm (in that example I use master but for production I would pin a version). It simply parses the package-lock.json, downloads the packages and uses npm to build the node_modules folder. It also provides some convenient functions for building packages with "bin" files or just linking node_modules inside a build.

    Note that this is more for project development. It doesn't use the "system" packages (intentionally) for Node, it fetches whatever versions you have specified from NPM. Nix will only provide the "native" stuff like Node and NPM themselves and any native libraries.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nixos-mailserver and napalm you can also consider the following projects:

Mail-in-a-Box - Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box.

nixGL - A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

IPSet_ASUS - Skynet - Advanced IP Blocking For ASUS Routers Using IPSet.

nix - A declaratively managed computing environment for rraval

nur-combined - A repository of NUR that combines all repositories [maintainer=@Mic92]

naersk - Build Rust projects in Nix - no configuration, no code generation, no IFD, sandbox friendly.

maddy - ✉️ Composable all-in-one mail server.

nixos-shell - Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

Haraka - A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server

flake-utils-plus - Use Nix flakes without any fluff.

dotfiles - A collection of my dotfiles

nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework