From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name? Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:16:37 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <41058F9A.90905@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090941445 1572 80.91.224.253 (27 Jul 2004 15:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 27 17:17:08 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 1BpThT-0003LF-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:17:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpTkZ-0000Bk-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:20:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.84 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1090941397 132.204.24.84 (Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:16:37 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:16:37 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124494 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:19830 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19830 >> It's pretty unusual to want to put the machine name in your email >> address. Are you sure this is what you really want? > All I really want it for is generating message-IDs, which need > to be globally unique. Right now generating message-IDs uses > system-name by default, but system-name doesn't include the domain > name and is thus not globally unique. Than how about setting system-name to something unique? Stefan