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From: John Owens <john_owens@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:29:37 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20040727T202534-855@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvacxlcorp.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The Message-ID can use anything you want, so long as it obeys similar
> constraints to the ones applied to host names.
> I'd guess that youremail <at> address plus some time-dependent string is
> sufficient for uniqueness since noone else will use youremail <at> address even
> on some other machine.

And I think that's my best bet ... thanks to all for the advice on this.

This does bring up the larger point, however, that there might be circumstances
where emacs DOES need to know its fully qualified domain name, and there does
not seem to be a way to get it, which is unfortunate.

JDO

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1622.1090879447.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-07-26 23:11 ` OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name? Kevin Rodgers
2004-07-26 23:59   ` John Owens
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1631.1090886583.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-07-27  1:22     ` Barry Margolin
2004-07-27  1:37       ` John Owens
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1641.1090892436.1960.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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 [this message]
     [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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