Correctly identify zulip-terminal in login notification e-mails

[khaeru]

Description of feature missing from another Zulip client

When logging in to chat.zulip.org from other Zulip clients, I get notification e-mails like:

• Subject: New login from Zulip on Android

  Body including "Device: Zulip on Android."

• Subject: New login from Zulip on Linux

  etc.

When I log in to zulip-term, I also receive an e-mail, but it looks like:

• Subject: New login from An unknown browser on an unknown operating system

  Body including "Device: An unknown browser on an unknown operating system."

It would be nice if this e-mail correctly identified zulip-terminal, or at least didn't say "unknown browser", as the terminal app is not a browser. Maybe this has to do with the terminal app sending a HTTP User-Agent: header with its initial API requests?

When was this feature first available in Zulip?

If you know:

• Zulip version: Zulip Cloud today
• Zulip feature level: ?

[neiljp]

@khaeru Apologies for the delay; has this been resolved subsequently?

I ask, since I suspect this is a server detail - the terminal client sends this information, as you can see in the server usage statistics, eg. https://chat.zulip.org/stats#id_messages_sent_by_client (see the 'Last year' tab).

[neiljp]

Terminal also specifies the platform (and client version) in this way, so it could fill in the other unknown too.

[khaeru]

Hi there—thanks for the info. Next time the terminal app asks me to log in, I'll check and confirm.

[RitwikGupta-0501]

Hi!

Is this issue fixed?

[khaeru]

Hi —I just now re-installed the latest version from the main branch:

$ uv tool install --python=3.11 git+https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal.git@main
$ zulip-term --version
Zulip Terminal 0.7.0+git

then deleted my ~/zuliprc file and logged in again.

The notification e-mail was the same as reported in the issue description, so I believe the issue persists.

[khairien]

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