strike this weird CHATMAIL_DOMAIN variable

This expands the character set used for passwords generated for new
accounts.  The set it taken from the set used by the pass tool.  The
special characters is the full GNU grep [:punct:] set.

README.md

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ after which the initially specified password is required for using them.
 
 ## Deploying your own chatmail server 
 
-We subsequently use `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN` as a placeholder for your fully qualified 
+We use `chat.example.org` as the chatmail domain in the following steps. 
-DNS domain name (FQDN), for example `chat.example.org`.
+Please substitute it with your own domain. 
 
 1. Install the `cmdeploy` command in a virtualenv
 
@@ -25,19 +25,19 @@ DNS domain name (FQDN), for example `chat.example.org`.
     cd chatmail
     scripts/initenv.sh
    ```
-  
+
 2. Create chatmail configuration file `chatmail.ini`:
 
    ```
-    scripts/cmdeploy init CHATMAIL_DOMAIN
+    scripts/cmdeploy init chat.example.org  # <-- use your domain 
    ```
 
-3. Setup first DNS records for your `CHATMAIL_DOMAIN`,
+3. Setup first DNS records for your chatmail domain, 
    according to the hints provided by `cmdeploy init`.
    Verify that SSH root login works:
 
    ```
-    ssh root@CHATMAIL_DOMAIN
+    ssh root@chat.example.org   # <-- use your domain 
    ```
 
 4. Deploy to the remote chatmail server:
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ scripts/cmdeploy bench
 
 ## Overview of this repository
 
-This repository drives the development of "chatmail instances",
+This repository drives the development of chatmail services, 
 comprised of minimal setups of
 
 - [postfix smtp server](https://www.postfix.org)
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ as well as custom services that are integrated with these two:
   to send mails for them.
 
 - `chatmaild/src/chatmaild/filtermail.py` prevents
-  unencrypted e-mail from leaving the chatmail instance
+  unencrypted e-mail from leaving the chatmail service
   and is integrated into postfix's outbound mail pipelines.
 
 There is also the `cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/cmdeploy.py` command line tool
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ to automatically install all chatmail components on a server.
 ### Home page and getting started for users
 
 `cmdeploy run` also creates default static Web pages and deploys them
-to an nginx web server under `https://CHATMAIL_DOMAIN`.
+to a nginx web server with: 
 
 - a default `index.html` along with a QR code that users can click to
   create accounts on your chatmail provider,

chatmaild/src/chatmaild/newemail.py

@@ -4,16 +4,22 @@
 
 import json
 import random
+import secrets
+import string
 
 from chatmaild.config import read_config, Config
 
 CONFIG_PATH = "/usr/local/lib/chatmaild/chatmail.ini"
+ALPHANUMERIC = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits
+ALPHANUMERIC_PUNCT = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
 
 
 def create_newemail_dict(config: Config):
-    alphanumeric = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890"
+    user = "".join(random.choices(ALPHANUMERIC, k=config.username_min_length))
-    user = "".join(random.choices(alphanumeric, k=config.username_min_length))
+    password = "".join(
-    password = "".join(random.choices(alphanumeric, k=config.password_min_length + 3))
+        secrets.choice(ALPHANUMERIC_PUNCT)
+        for _ in range(config.password_min_length + 3)
+    )
     return dict(email=f"{user}@{config.mail_domain}", password=f"{password}")