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ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> > People who use default Linux installations (at least RedHat) and DHCP
> > will also get a domain part of "localhost.localdomain".

The DHCP client can be configured to call sethostname() and
setdomainname().  If it doesn't do so, and if (system-name)
consequently reports the wrong name, then that's a problem outside
Gnus, which should be solved outside Gnus.

> > # emacs -q -batch -eval '(princ (concat (system-name) "\n"))'
> > localhost.localdomain
> > # hostname -f
> > sjosefsson-lap

How is emacs finding the hostname, in this case?

> Since message-make-fqdn is not always reliable, should we add a
> customizable variable for this?

I think it would do more harm than good.


paul