Does Nginx package, in the nixpkgs repos, compiled with mail proxy support

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Highly respected community,

I’m trying to setup Nginx as SMTP and IMAP reverse-proxy. But, as specified in the official documentation(Configuring NGINX as a Mail Proxy Server | NGINX Documentation), community version of Nginx has to be compiled with --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-openssl=[DIR]/openssl-1.1.1

So I’m wondering, if the Nginx package(pkgs.nginx) goes with mail proxy support compiled in?

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It seems as if those options are set if withMail in the argset is true:

Which seems to default to false:

So pkgs.nginx.override { withMail = true; } should work.

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Just tried it, this way:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  nginx.override { withMail = true; }
];

and got:

building Nix...
building the system configuration...
error: The option value `environment.systemPackages.[definition 2-entry 5]' in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' is not of type `package'.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
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You need to use parens:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  (nginx.override { withMail = true; })
];

Otherwise, nix would treat nginx.override and { withMail = true; } individual entries in the list.

I prefer let bindings or overlays for this to eventually have a modified package nginxWithMail or something like that.

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Putting it in systemPackages also won’t work if you run it with the NixOS module, because it doesn’t run nginx from your system path. You’d need to set this option.

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