rework UI for chatmail setup

README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
 <img width="800px" src="www/src/collage-top.png"/>
 
-# Chatmail instances optimized for Delta Chat apps 
+# Chatmail services optimized for Delta Chat apps 
 
-This repository helps to setup a ready-to-use chatmail instance
+This repository helps to setup a ready-to-use chatmail server
 comprised of a minimal setup of the battle-tested 
 [postfix smtp](https://www.postfix.org) and [dovecot imap](https://www.dovecot.org) services. 
 
@@ -13,27 +13,72 @@ for use by [Delta Chat apps](https://delta.chat).
 Chatmail accounts are automatically created by a first login, 
 after which the initially specified password is required for using them. 
 
-## Getting Started deploying your own chatmail instance
+## Deploying your own chatmail server 
 
-1. Setup a domain with `A` and `AAAA` records for your chatmail server.
+We subsequently use `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN` as a placeholder for your fully qualified 
+DNS domain name (FQDN), for example `chat.example.org`.
 
-2. Prepare your local system for deploying to $CHATMAIL_DOMAIN:
+1. Setup DNS `A` and `AAAA` records for your `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN`. 
+   Verify that DNS is set and SSH root login works:
 
-    scripts/init.sh $CHATMAIL_DOMAIN 
+   ```
+        ssh root@CHATMAIL_DOMAIN 
+   ```
 
-3. Edit the generated `chatmail.ini` file 
+2. Install the `cmdeploy` binary in a Python virtual environment: 
 
-4. Deploy chatmail services remotely: 
+   ```
+    python3 -m venv venv 
+    source venv/bin/activate 
+    pip install -e deploy-chatmail -e chatmaild 
+   ```
 
-     scripts/deploy.sh chatmail.ini 
+3. Create chatmail configuration file `chatmail.ini`:
 
-5. Run `scripts/generate-dns-zone.sh` and 
+   ```
-   transfer the generated DNS `chatmail.zone` records to your DNS provider
+    cmdeploy genconfig chatmail.ini CHATMAIL_DOMAIN
+   ```
+
+4. Deploy to the remote chatmail server, pointing to the chatmail config file: 
+
+   ```
+    cmdeploy install chatmail.ini 
+   ```
+
+5. To output a DNS zone file from which you can transfer DNS records 
+   to your DNS provider for your `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN`
+
+   ```
+    cmdeploy dns chatmail.ini
+   ```
+
+   to generate a DNS zone file from which you can transfer records to your 
+   DNS provider. 
+
+
+
+### Refining the web pages 
+
+
+``` 
+    cmdeploy webdev 
+```
+
+This starts a local live development cycle for chatmail Web pages: 
+
+- uses the `www/src/page-layout.html` file for producing static 
+  HTML pages from `www/src/*.md` files
+
+- continously builds the web presence reading files from `www/src` directory
+  and generating html files and copying assets to the `www/build` directory. 
+
+- Starts a browser window automatically where you can "refresh" as needed. 
 
 
 ### Home page and getting started for users 
 
-The `deploy.sh` script deploys 
+`cmdeploy install chatmail.ini` script sets up mail services,
+and also creates default static Web pages and deploys them: 
 
 - a default `index.html` along with a QR code that users can click to 
   create accounts on your chatmail provider,
@@ -42,31 +87,10 @@ The `deploy.sh` script deploys
 
 - a default `policy.html` that is linked from the home page. 
 
-All files are generated by the according markdown `.md` file in the `www` directory.
+All `.html` files are generated 
+by the according markdown `.md` file in the `www/src` directory.
 
 
-### Refining the web pages 
-
-The `scripts/webdev.sh` script supports live development of the chatmail web presence:
-
-``` 
-    scripts/init.sh  # to locally initialize python virtual environments etc. 
-    scripts/webdev.sh
-```
-
-- uses the `www/src/page-layout.html` file for producing html documents
-  from `www/src/*.md` files. 
-
-- continously builds the web presence reading files from `www/src` directory
-  and generating html files and copying assets to the `www/build` directory. 
-
-- Starts a browser window automatically where you can "refresh" as needed. 
-
-Note that this script is not needed for running `scripts/deploy.sh" 
-which deploys the whole chatmail setup remotely. 
-The code that generates the web pages is identical
-which means that `webdev.sh` gives a pretty good preview. 
-
 ### Ports
 
 Postfix listens on ports 25 (smtp) and 587 (submission) and 465 (submissions).

deploy-chatmail/pyproject.toml

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ dependencies = [
   "pillow",
   "qrcode",
   "markdown",
+  "pytest",
+  "setuptools>=68",
+  "tox",
 ]
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]