get_fallback_email() now uses the EMAIL environmental variable (if set).

This patch is based on Julien Muchembled's suggestions, which are in
turn based on the related Git code in git.git/ident.c.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/libbe/ui/util/user.py b/libbe/ui/util/user.py
index f2c7511..10b2b96 100644
--- a/libbe/ui/util/user.py
+++ b/libbe/ui/util/user.py
@@ -73,9 +73,8 @@ def get_fallback_fullname():
 def get_fallback_email():
     """Return an email address extracted from environmental variables.
     """
-    hostname = gethostname()
-    name = get_fallback_username()
-    return "%s@%s" % (name, hostname)
+    return os.getenv('EMAIL') or '%s@%s' % (
+        get_fallback_username(), gethostname())
 
 def create_user_id(name, email=None):
     """Create a user ID string from given `name` and `email` strings.