Re: init_system_name fqdn?

[Paul Eggert]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Yes.  I think nowadays, guessing the user-mail-address based on
> "username" and "system-name" is just hopeless.  A better basis for the
> guess could be ~/.gitconfig.

Yes, perhaps we could default the email address to the output of the command 
'git config --get user.email' if the command is successful.  This would be a win 
for my setup, where /etc/hostname contains 'Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU' (because that's 
what our local DNS says my machine's name is, and Fedora's setup procedure fills 
in /etc/hostname from that), but address@hidden does not work as an 
email address.
> If we want "emacs -Q" to get a valid email without prompting you every
> time, then we need to store the email somewhere else than ~/.emacs.

Yes, defaulting to .gitconfig would have fixed some of the misconfigured emails 
I've sent from Emacs over the years, when I mistakenly sent email from emacs -Q.