Stalwart

Stalwart is an open-source, all-in-one mail server solution that supports JMAP, IMAP4, and SMTP protocols. It's designed to be secure, fast, robust, and scalable, with features like built-in DMARC, DKIM, SPF, and ARC support for message authentication. It also provides strong transport security through DANE, MTA-STS, and SMTP TLS reporting. Stalwart is written in Rust, ensuring high performance and memory safety.

Setup

The following minimal configuration example is unsecure and for testing purpose only. It will run the Stalwart mail server on localhost, listening on port 143 (IMAP) and 587 (Submission). Users alice and bob are configured with the password foobar.

/etc/nixos/configuration.nix

services.stalwart-mail = {
  enable = true;
  # Use newer, latest version in NixOS 24.05
  package = pkgs.stalwart-mail;
  settings = {
    server = {
      hostname = "localhost";
      tls.enable = false;
      listener = {
        "smtp-submission" = {
          bind = [ "[::]:587" ];
          protocol = "smtp";
        };
        "imap" = {
          bind = [ "[::]:143" ];
          protocol = "imap";
        };
      };
    };
    imap.auth.allow-plain-text = true;
    session.auth = {
      mechanisms = "[plain, auth]";
      directory = "'in-memory'";
    };
    storage.directory = "in-memory";
    session.rcpt.directory = "'in-memory'";
    queue.outbound.next-hop = "'local'";
    directory."in-memory" = {
      type = "memory";
      principals = [
        {
          class = "individual";
          name = "alice";
          secret = "foobar";
          email = [ "alice@localhost" ];
        }
        {
          class = "individual";
          name = "bob";
          secret = "foobar";
          email = [ "bob@$localhost" ];
        }
      ];
    };
  };
};

Setup

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