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
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