Quote from: AforAmethyst on March 29, 2017, 10:46:57 PM

I've just installed an Electrum wallet for the first time. In the [Console] details there is a "welcome to hachre's Electrum server!" (running Electrumx 1.0.5, Bitcoin 0.13.2)

Hachre sounds like hacker, but I notice that one of official servers on the electrum.org website is listed as "hachre" with the .de website country code for Germany.

However, further on in my Electrum wallet console the contact email "electrum@hach.re" is given. The .re is a website country code for Reunion - a remote French island next to Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

My question is: Is this a genuine Electrum server?

What you are seeing in the [Console] tab is simply the welcome message when your Electrum client connected to one of the many Electrum servers. Its basically an announcement when you connect to their server. This is fine and nothing to worry about