From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Owens 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 01:37:18 +0000 (UTC) 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090892261 31021 80.91.224.253 (27 Jul 2004 01:37:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:37:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 27 03:37:33 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 1BpGuL-0001Mf-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:37:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpGxP-000257-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpGxH-000252-86 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpGxE-00024E-O0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:40:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpGxE-00024B-Lo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpGu9-0003cK-G1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:37:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BpGu8-0003j2-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-68-122-68-133.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([68.122.68.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from john_owens by adsl-68-122-68-133.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:37:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 68.122.68.133 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.8) 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:19816 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19816 Barry Margolin alum.mit.edu> writes: > 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. JDO