From: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Is default email address in notmuch setup / lib useful?
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 19:14:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8f0ffbf0a5a093348d56a53a87187cc@condition-alpha.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfyibqhj.fsf@tethera.net>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> Currently notmuch tries to make a guess for a default email address
> based on the "fully qualified hostname" of the host it is running
> on. This is roughly equivalent to running "hostname -f". I have observed
> two things
> [...]
> If people agree it's generally not useful, I'd propose to replace it
> with some simpler default like "localhost" [1], equally useful to for
> testing, but simpler to implement and test.
> [...]
I'd support David's suggestion to just default it to "localhost".
If an unsuspecting user tries to send their first email with notmuch,
the current behaviour could reveal information about the user's local
infrastructure in the message. "localhost" is a much safer default, IMO.
--alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-06 17:14 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH] lib: use 'localhost' rather than fqdn for default mail address David Bremner
2021-09-09 20:09 ` Tomi Ollila
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