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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>,
	David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH] lib: use 'localhost' rather than fqdn for default mail address.
Date: Thu,  9 Sep 2021 09:51:03 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210909125103.215302-1-david@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2v93cstql.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi>

As discussed in the thread starting at [1], the fully qualified domain
name is a bit tricky to get reproducibly, might reveal information
people prefer to keep private, and somewhat unlikely to provide
reliable mail routing.

The new approach of $current_username@localhost is better for the
first two considerations, and probably at least as good as a test mail
address.

[1]: id:87sfyibqhj.fsf@tethera.net
---
 lib/config.cc          | 17 ++---------------
 test/T590-libconfig.sh | 10 ++++------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/config.cc b/lib/config.cc
index 7ecc3c7b..408570bc 100644
--- a/lib/config.cc
+++ b/lib/config.cc
@@ -543,25 +543,12 @@ _get_username_from_passwd_file (void *ctx)
 static const char *
 _get_email_from_passwd_file (void *ctx)
 {
-
-    char hostname[256];
-    struct hostent *hostent;
-    const char *domainname;
     char *email;
 
     char *username = _get_username_from_passwd_file (ctx);
 
-    gethostname (hostname, 256);
-    hostname[255] = '\0';
-
-    hostent = gethostbyname (hostname);
-    if (hostent && (domainname = strchr (hostent->h_name, '.')))
-	domainname += 1;
-    else
-	domainname = "(none)";
-
-    email = talloc_asprintf (ctx, "%s@%s.%s",
-			     username, hostname, domainname);
+    email = talloc_asprintf (ctx, "%s@localhost",
+			     username);
 
     talloc_free (username);
     return email;
diff --git a/test/T590-libconfig.sh b/test/T590-libconfig.sh
index 41f67bae..59b82a6f 100755
--- a/test/T590-libconfig.sh
+++ b/test/T590-libconfig.sh
@@ -12,12 +12,10 @@ import os, sys, pwd, socket
 pw = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())
 user = pw.pw_name
 name = pw.pw_gecos.partition(",")[0]
-fqdn = socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), 0, 0,
-                          socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0, socket.AI_CANONNAME)[0][3]
+
 for l in sys.stdin:
     if l[:4] == "08: ":
-        l = l.replace(user, "USERNAME", 1).replace("@" + fqdn, "@FQDN", 1)
-        l = l.replace(".(none)", "", 1).replace(".localdomain", "", 1)
+        l = l.replace(user, "USERNAME", 1)
     elif l[:4] == "10: ":
         l = l.replace("'" + name, "'USER_FULL_NAME", 1)
     sys.stdout.write(l)
@@ -416,7 +414,7 @@ cat <<'EOF' >EXPECTED
 05: 'unread;inbox'
 06: ''
 07: 'true'
-08: 'USERNAME@FQDN'
+08: 'USERNAME@localhost'
 09: 'NULL'
 10: 'USER_FULL_NAME'
 11: '8000'
@@ -761,7 +759,7 @@ cat <<'EOF' >EXPECTED
 05: 'unread;inbox'
 06: ''
 07: 'true'
-08: 'USERNAME@FQDN'
+08: 'USERNAME@localhost'
 09: 'NULL'
 10: 'USER_FULL_NAME'
 11: '8000'
-- 
2.30.2

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-09 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-05 22:35 Is default email address in notmuch setup / lib useful? David Bremner
2021-09-06 17:14 ` Alexander Adolf
2021-09-06 20:39   ` Tomi Ollila
2021-09-07  1:26     ` David Bremner
2021-09-07  7:57       ` Tomi Ollila
2021-09-09 12:51         ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-09-09 20:09           ` [PATCH] lib: use 'localhost' rather than fqdn for default mail address Tomi Ollila

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