use Sys::Hostname; $address = sprintf('%s@%s', getpwuid($<), hostname);
Company policies on email address can mean that this generates addresses that the company's email system will not accept, so you should ask for users' email addresses when this matters. Furthermore, not all systems on which Perl runs are so forthcoming with this information as is Unix.
The Mail::Util module from
CPAN (part of the MailTools package) provides a
mailaddress
function that tries to guess the mail address of
the user. It makes a more intelligent guess than the code above, using
information given when the module was installed, but it could still be
incorrect. Again, the best way is often just to ask the user.