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> On 6 May 2025, at 5:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> writes:
>
>> Due to current implementation, I was not able to send emails from
>> Ubuntu.
>
> It may be that send-email did not complain, but I have a suspicion
> that it the above is only half truth. We do have an ugly last-ditch
> fallback to claim that we are localhost.localdomain, instead of
> using a misconfigured maildomain name that servers would not like,
> but that name is a meaningless name; from the point of view of the
> server, if everybody uses that name, the name loses the meaning as
> an identifier.
>
> It is more like due to misconfiguration you couldn't send e-mails,
> and by tightening the condition to tell an invalid maildomain name
> and have the misconfigured maildomain name that is invalid replaced
> with "localhost.localdomain" fallback, you managed to send things
> out.
>
> The real fix for individual users may probably be to see how
> maildomain_net() and/or maildomain_mta() gives you a bogus
> "Macbook.." and fix _that_. Until that gets fixed, trying to use
> "localhost.localdomain" fallback might be a good workaround, but
> that is a workaround, not a real solution, isn't it?
I think I should dig deeper on how the domain name is being assigned.
Maybe its time to fix another perl module after Authen::SASL?
Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>