Question regarding options

[Alveel]

What does the option --name do exactly? What is its purpose? I can't figure it out. It doesn't seem to have an effect as far as I can see. Can you explain?

Thank you!

[ozkutuk]

It is the name of the person that the created email address is for (but you can give any name of course). If you were to send an email from the generated identity, it would be what is displayed as the sender's name on recipient's end (e.g. "John Doe" in John Doe <john.doe@example.com>). A name is required in order to create a new identity on Migadu, hence the option in migaman. For the intended use case of the project (i.e. generating and managing aliases) however, giving a name manually each time is usually unnecessary. What I did myself was add a default name to the config file once, and never touch the --name flag again. You can do the same by filling in the "name" field as it is in the sample config, but if you need any help, please let me know.

Do you think the help text for the --name flag could be improved? Currently, it reads "User name of the generated identity", but maybe it is not the most explanatory thing. Feel free to let me know if you have a better idea there!