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 18:29:37 +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 1090954410 4151 80.91.224.253 (27 Jul 2004 18:53:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 27 20:53:23 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 1BpX4k-0004dq-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:53:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpX7q-0002Xy-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpX7h-0002XF-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:56:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpX7f-0002Wh-Ss for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:56:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpX7f-0002WX-Oy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:56:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BpX4U-0006GP-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BpWho-0003ZI-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:29:40 +0200 Original-Received: from fanta.ece.ucdavis.edu ([169.237.74.29]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:29:40 +0200 Original-Received: from john_owens by fanta.ece.ucdavis.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:29:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 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: 169.237.74.29 (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:19840 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19840 Stefan Monnier 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 address plus some time-dependent string is > sufficient for uniqueness since noone else will use youremail 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