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The right hand side of the message id comes from the variable
system-name.  What is it?  The variable is automatically initialized
when Emacs starts, based on the contents of the /etc/hosts file (among
other things).  So just put your FQDN in there (maybe as an alias) and
you'll be fine.

kai
-- 
because I couldn't think of a good beginning.