I’d like to host an email server but I don’t know what should go into the workstation and what on the gateway. I guess its the same as hosting websites where only the onion is on the gateway and the rest on workstation?
Edit: Also, what about xmpp?
I’d like to host an email server but I don’t know what should go into the workstation and what on the gateway. I guess its the same as hosting websites where only the onion is on the gateway and the rest on workstation?
Edit: Also, what about xmpp?
It follows the same principles. What changes are the server application and ports.
I suggest to learn this in this order:
That is because for reasons - unspecific - to Whonix, e-mail over Tor / onion will be very hard or impossible. E-mail requires MX DNS requests as far as I know. For status of that in Tor, see:
I don’t know any more about this.
For email go with Qmail - a security conscious email daemon from DJB.
For XMPP go with the simplest and cleanest server implementation possible
For XMPP here’s some popular choices:
https://xmpp.org/software/servers.html
I’m in favor of ejabberd written in Erlang - memory safe and high perf lang. Many deployments run it.