From: Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>
Subject: Re: header error
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 02:00:46 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzowd9gx.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877jg1ndib.fsf@koldfront.dk>
> >> ,----[ C-h v user-mail-address RET ]
> >> | `user-mail-address' is a variable declared in Lisp.
> >> | -- loaded from "sendmail"
> >> |
> >> | Value: "asjo@koldfront.dk"
>
> > This was not much help:
>
> > user-mail-address's value is
> > "brownh@hartford-hwp.com"
>
> Uhm, you cut the documentation that might be of help - the lines
> describing from what variables user-mail-adress is generated (if you
> do not set it yourself later).
I have these two lines in ~/.gnus:
(setq user-mail-address "brownh@hartford-hwp.com")
(setq mail-host-address "brownh@hartford-hwp.com")
I also have:
(setq user-full-name "Haines Brown")
Here's my message header:
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Re: header error
References: <87fyupwhss.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>
<87wto1qs25.fsf@koldfront.dk>
<87hdf5e2gf.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com>
<877jg1ndib.fsf@koldfront.dk>
This message will out OK without the From line because all that's
needed, apparently, is the envelope From line.
The user-mail-address has a default value that I'm overwriting, and I
wonder where it gets it's value.
As for mail-host-address, it uses (system-name) (but I don't know how
to display the current value of a variable in emacs). In any case, the
basic file /etc/emacs/site.start.d/00debian-vars.el suggests that the
default sets mailname to the value of /etc/mailname, which in turn is
"hartford-hwp.com".
I am very uncertain how I should have defined /etc/mailname, but here
I've changed it to "brownh@hartford-hwp.com", but it didn't help. I'm
also very uncertain as to how to define /etc/hostname, and I used the
value "teufel.hartford-hwp.com". Some places I read seemed to say I
should use the FQDN, rather than local hostname ("teufel"). I've asked
around on both of these issues, but never got a reply. I'd love to
hear some wise advice here. In any case, I don't see that it would
cause the header From: line to be missing entirely.
Perhaps because of this configuration, I get odd returns from the
hostname command:
$ hostname -a
localhost.localdomain teufel.hartford-hwp.com
$ hostname - d
[nothing is returned for the domain name]
$ hostname -f
localhost
$ hostname -s
localhost
Something very odd is going on.
--
Haines Brown
KB1GRM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-09 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-08 13:25 Haines Brown
2005-07-08 14:40 ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-07-08 15:34 ` Haines Brown
2005-07-08 16:30 ` Haines Brown
2005-07-08 22:23 ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-07-09 2:00 ` Haines Brown [this message]
2005-07-09 8:24 ` Adam Sjøgren
2005-07-09 13:30 ` Haines Brown
2005-07-10 16:30 ` Haines Brown
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