From: Ken Olum <kdo@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: init_system_name fqdn?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:17:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q52lgos81b4.fsf@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> (raw)
A while back, init_system_name tried to find the system's fully
qualified domain name. Then this code was taken out, and now it just
uses whatever gethostname returns. I think this is a poor choice. Many
systems are configured without a fully qualified hostname. Then when
you send mail you get "i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me"
in your from address. Of course this is easily fixed by setting
mail-host-address, e.g., in site-start.el, but then when you go to
report a bug and say "emacs -Q" ... "M-x report-emacs-bug" you are back
to "so tickle me".
Ken
next reply other threads:[~2017-06-16 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-16 14:17 Ken Olum [this message]
2017-06-16 14:33 ` init_system_name fqdn? Yuri Khan
2017-06-16 18:10 ` Ken Olum
2017-06-17 3:45 ` Tim Cross
2017-06-17 14:17 ` Ken Olum
2017-06-17 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-18 1:48 ` Tim Cross
2017-06-17 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 17:10 ` Ken Olum
2017-06-17 17:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-17 18:52 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-17 19:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-06-17 22:30 ` Ken Olum
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