From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:11:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41058F9A.90905@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1622.1090879447.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
John Owens wrote:
> Greetings, I'm using emacs 21.3.50 (built from CVS) on OS X 10.3. I
> would like it to use a fully-qualified domain name when sending
> mail. Instead, it uses system-name, which appears to just use my
> "computer name" (which is no way fully-qualified).
>
> What would be ideal is if I could use the system-name function to
> dynamically return where I am (since if I run emacs at home, then go
> to work, plug it in, and use emacs there, I'd like emacs to use the
> work machine's domain name, not the one from home). I figure that OS X
> knows its domain name (I can see it in the logs if I ssh somewhere,
> for instance), but I don't know how to get that information nor do I
> know how to make emacs use it.
C-h v user-mail-address
C-h v mail-host-address
To get the domain name in Emacs on Unix, try this:
(shell-command-to-string "awk '/^domain/ {printf $2}' /etc/resolv.conf")
--
Kevin Rodgers
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-26 23:11 UTC|newest]
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2004-07-26 23:11 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-07-26 23:59 ` OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name? John Owens
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2004-07-27 1:22 ` Barry Margolin
2004-07-27 1:37 ` John Owens
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2004-07-27 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-07-27 17:03 ` John Owens
[not found] ` <mailman.1759.1090947989.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-07-27 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-07-27 18:29 ` John Owens
[not found] ` <mailman.1770.1090954587.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-07-27 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-07-27 20:30 ` John Owens
2004-07-27 19:48 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-07-27 20:49 ` John Owens
2004-07-26 21:59 John Owens
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