Message-ID

Message-ID

[Heinrich Moser]

Hi!

Why is my message ID broken (@localhost.localdomain, see this
message), although I followed the steps of FAQ Q2.16* and set
mail-host-address correctly**?

Greetings, TIA,
    Heinzi

* http://www.faqs.org/faqs/gnus-faq/

**
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(gnus-local-domain "msgid.heinzi.at")
[...]
 '(mail-host-address "msgid.heinzi.at")
[...]
 '(user-mail-address "usenet@heinzi.at"))

Re: Message-ID

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> Heinrich Moser wrote:

> Why is my message ID broken (@localhost.localdomain, see this
> message), although I followed the steps of FAQ Q2.16* and set
> mail-host-address correctly**?

> Greetings, TIA,
>     Heinzi

> * http://www.faqs.org/faqs/gnus-faq/

Unfortunately Gnus v5.9 prefers the system name if it contains dots,
and there is no way to let Gnus honor `mail-host-address' other than
modifying the `message-make-fqdn' function.  If you wish to do so,
add this form to your ~/.gnus.el file:

(defun message-make-fqdn ()
  mail-host-address)

But you'd better upgrade your Gnus (and also Emacs if possible) to
the modern one.  Gnus v5.10.8[1] supports Emacs 21 and Emacs 22.1
provides Gnus v5.11.  With those versions of Gnus, you can control
the domain part of Message-ID by the `message-user-fqdn' variable.

[1] ftp://ftp.gnus.org/pub/gnus/gnus-5.10.8.tar.gz

Re: Message-ID

[Heinrich Moser]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>>>>>> Heinrich Moser wrote:
>> Why is my message ID broken (@localhost.localdomain, see this
>> message), although I followed the steps of FAQ Q2.16* and set
>> mail-host-address correctly**?
>
> Unfortunately Gnus v5.9 prefers the system name if it contains dots,
> and there is no way to let Gnus honor `mail-host-address' other than
> modifying the `message-make-fqdn' function.  If you wish to do so,
> add this form to your ~/.gnus.el file:
>
> (defun message-make-fqdn ()
>   message-make-fqdn)
>
> But you'd better upgrade your Gnus (and also Emacs if possible) to
> the modern one.  Gnus v5.10.8[1] supports Emacs 21 and Emacs 22.1
> provides Gnus v5.11.  With those versions of Gnus, you can control
> the domain part of Message-ID by the `message-user-fqdn' variable.

Thank you; upgrading to 5.11 and setting message-user-fqdn worked
great!

Greetings,
    Heinzi

PS: Apparently, there are two versions of gnus available in Debian
Etch: One (v5.9) built into the emacs21 package and another one
(v5.11) in the separate gnus package.