From: of mail gets set to $user@localhost

As discussed in #39 (closed), on my machine the From: gets set to georg@localhost. The uid of the key looks fairly standard:

uid                  georg@riseup.net <georg@riseup.net>```

Should I try to debug this further?

here's the logic of the chosen From: header:

        if self.options.user is not None and '@' in self.options.user:
            from_user = self.options.user
        else:
            from_user = self.signing_key.uidslist[0].uid

in other words, it's fairly straightforward: see if you can fix your problem with --user "anotheremail@example.com". then you could try the following patch to see a bit more what's going on:

diff --git a/monkeysign/ui.py b/monkeysign/ui.py
index 2b49bf2..8cc2f61 100644
--- a/monkeysign/ui.py
+++ b/monkeysign/ui.py
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ def export_key(self):
             from_user = self.options.user
         else:
             from_user = self.signing_key.uidslist[0].uid
+            self.warn(_('invalid user option: %s, chosen %s instead') % (self.options.user, from_user))
 
         if len(self.signed_keys) < 1:
             self.warn(_('no key signed, nothing to export'))

so yes, please debug this further. nowhere in the monkeysign code is the localhost string mentionned, so something is feeding that in the email.

providing a full --debug output along with the actual email sent with full headers would be useful.

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