From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <41058F9A.90905@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090883580 11117 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 23:13:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 27 01:12:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BpEeN-0001gX-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:12:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpEhQ-0004cB-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:16:04 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!news0.de.colt.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de znzZ1yemMxy4NkgUbHbjwgPZGNt98Gf2393eyDKuqBgtgxsEM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124477 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19813 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19813 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