From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: September Gnus 0.60 is released
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:01:59 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199604162001.WAA04899@bombur2.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjzq8unyyf.fsf@babbage.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> Wouldn't it be easier to do something like this:
>
> default.el:
>
> (setq mail-host-address (getenv "MAILHOST"))
>
> /etc/login (or whatever):
>
> MAILHOST = `whatever`
> export MAILHOST
No, that only sets the domain part of the address. The point is that
when the user has *not* set user-mail-address, the default.el at UiO
would have to call an external process to learn his official address.
This operation should be delayed until the address is actually needed.
Regards,
Hallvard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-04-16 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-28 6:25 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-28 10:49 ` Magnus Hammerin
1996-03-28 11:28 ` Kai Grossjohann
1996-03-28 12:36 ` Magnus Hammerin
1996-03-28 13:16 ` Kai Grossjohann
1996-03-28 14:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-03-28 23:22 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-03-29 16:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-29 16:39 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-04-01 15:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-04-01 16:21 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-04-02 20:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-04-02 20:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-04-16 20:01 ` Hallvard B Furuseth [this message]
1996-03-29 16:58 ` Scott Blachowicz
1996-03-29 18:12 ` Russ Allbery
1996-03-29 5:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-29 2:04 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-03-29 5:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-29 5:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-29 9:08 ` Small thinko in .message.el variable initialisation Jan Vroonhof
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