From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26597 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raymond Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: message.el: mail-host-address ignored Date: 10 Nov 1999 19:24:40 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163775 20247 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:29:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA07990 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:36:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB04270; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:36:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:35:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23690 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:35:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail2.gmx.net (mail2.gmx.net [194.221.183.62]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA07971 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:34:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 21431 invoked by uid 0); 10 Nov 1999 20:29:45 -0000 Original-Received: from pec-11-137.tnt1.hh2.uunet.de (HELO mde1.home) (149.225.11.137) by mail2.gmx.net with SMTP; 10 Nov 1999 20:29:45 -0000 Original-Received: (from rscholz@localhost) by mde1.home (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA17606; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:24:40 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26597 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26597 Hi! There seems to be an inconsistency in the behaviour of message.el compared with it's documentation, coming with PGnus 0.98 . My computer's name is "mde1". Some Linux distributions force the user to specify a domain part too [1]. I used "home", so the complete name is "mde1.home", no FQDN as you see. `system-name' gives me that string too. So I set `mail-host-address' to a FQDN after consulting the Message info pages and finding: | `Message-ID' | This required header will be generated by Message. A unique ID | will be created based on the date, time, user name and system | name. Message will use `mail-host-address' as the fully qualified | domain name (FQDN) of the machine if that variable is defined. If | not, it will use `system-name', which doesn't report a FQDN on | some machines - notably Suns. But Message still uses `system-name' for Message-ID generation. My tiny knowledge of Lisp tells me, that Message takes `system-name', looks for a `.' in it and calls it fully qualified after that. If there is no `.' in it, it uses other alternatives (including `mail-host-address') to build a unique Message-ID. My current workaround is to set system-name to "mde1" by now... Cheers, Ray [1] Yes, I know how to work around this, but others possibly won't. -- Raymond Scholz -*- rscholz@tzi.de -*- http://www.tzi.de/~rscholz/ FB 3 Informatik, Universitaet Bremen -*- PGP key available via WWW