From 53b30c3870ad6f8dad14040725e2dd2f9f3eab23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:07:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Expand a bit on Emacs not knowing fqdn. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 6c72bacae11..4d4603b4be0 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -386,9 +386,13 @@ again to say this: *** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name. +For example, (system-name) returns some variation on +"localhost.localdomain", rather the name you were expecting. + You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name, -either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system -calls for specifying this. +(i.e. a name with at least one ".") either in /etc/hosts, +/etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system calls for specifying +this. If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable mail-host-address to the value you want. -- 2.39.2