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[PATCH] send-email: try to get fqdn by running hostname --fqdn on Linux and macOS

From
Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
Date
May 9, 2025, 16:49 UTC
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`hostname` is a popular command available on both Linux and macOS. As per the man-page[1], `hostname --fqdn` command returns the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the system. The current Net::Domain perl module being used in the script for the same has been quite unrealiable in many cases. Thankfully, we now have a better check for valid_fqdn, which does reject the invalid FQDNs given by this module properly, but at the same time, it will result in a fallback to 'localhost.localdomain' being used. `hostname --fqdn` has been quite reliable (probably even more reliable than the Net::Domain module) and before falling back to 'localhost.localdomain', we should try to use it. Interestingly, the `hostname` command is actually used by perl modules like Net::Domain[2] and Sys::Hostname[3] to get the hostname. So, lets give `hostname --fqdn` a chance as well!

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hostname.1.html [2]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/cpan/libnet/lib/Net/Domain.pm#L88 [3]: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/ext/Sys-Hostname/Hostname.pm#L93

Signed-off-by: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>
---
 git-send-email.perl | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 55b7e00d29..735d8abc12 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -1393,8 +1393,20 @@ sub maildomain_mta {
 	return $maildomain;
 }
 
+sub maildomain_hostname_command {
+	my $maildomain;
+
+	if ($^O eq 'linux' || $^O eq 'darwin') {
+		my $domain = `(hostname --fqdn) 2>/dev/null`;
+		chomp($domain);
+		$maildomain = $domain if valid_fqdn($domain);
+	}
+	return $maildomain;
+}
+
 sub maildomain {
-	return maildomain_net() || maildomain_mta() || 'localhost.localdomain';
+	return maildomain_net() || maildomain_mta() ||
+		maildomain_hostname_command || 'localhost.localdomain';
 }
 
 sub smtp_host_string {
-- 
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