Re: OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

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