diff --git a/doveauth/README.md b/doveauth/README.md
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+# doveauth
+
+doveauth is a python tool
+to create dovecot users on login.
+It is called by the
+[dovecot lua authentication module](https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/lua_based_authentication/)
+
diff --git a/doveauth/pyproject.toml b/doveauth/pyproject.toml
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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=45"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "doveauth"
+version = "0.1"
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+addopts = "-v -ra --strict-markers"
+
+[tool.tox]
+legacy_tox_ini = """
+[tox]
+isolated_build = true
+envlist = lint
+
+[testenv:lint]
+skipdist = True
+skip_install = True
+deps =
+  ruff
+  black
+commands =
+  black --quiet --check --diff src/
+  ruff src/
+"""