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-# Chatmail servers for end-to-end encrypted instant messaging 
+# Chatmail servers for secure instant messaging 
 
-This repository helps to setup a ready-to-use chatmail server
+Chatmail servers are minimal secure e-mail routing machines designed for:
+
+- Convenience: Instant onboarding with Google/Apple/Huawei push notifications
+
+- Privacy: Just login, no questions asked, no name, numbers or e-mail needed
+
+- Speed: End-to-End Message delivery in well under a second
+
+- Security: Strict TLS, DKIM and OpenPGP encryption is enforced. 
+
+- Fun: No annoying spam-checking, IP reputation or rate limits
+
+This repository contains everything needed 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. 
+
 The automated setup is designed and optimized for providing chatmail addresses 
 for immediate permission-free onboarding through chat apps and bots. 
 Chatmail addresses are automatically created by a first login, 
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 Please see [this list of known apps and client projects](https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projects/3059) which offer instant onboarding on chatmail servers,
 and [this list of known public 3rd party chatmail servers](https://delta.chat/en/chatmail). 
 
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+## Minimal requirements, Perequisites 
+
+You will need the following: 
+
+- control over a domain through a DNS provider of your choice, 
+
+- Debian 12 machine with IPV4 and preferably also IPV6 addresses, 
+  1GB RAM, one slow CPU and maybe 10GB storage for a
+  few thousand active chatmail addresses, and 
+
+- password-less ssh root login to the domain 
+
+
 ## Deploying a chatmail server 
 
 To deploy chatmail on a server, you must have set up ssh authentication and need to use an ed25519 key, due to an [upstream bug in paramiko](https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/2191). You also need to add your private key to the local ssh-agent, because you can't type in your password during deployment.