# HG changeset patch # User Glenn Morris # Date 1177002435 0 # Node ID 443d25344bd0bceb4eca4774277f90fc082b1851 # Parent 972bc1b04abc918c288f05f0727759c866ca0344 Expand a bit on Emacs not knowing fqdn. diff -r 972bc1b04abc -r 443d25344bd0 etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Apr 19 17:02:37 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Apr 19 17:07:15 2007 +0000 @@ -386,9 +386,13 @@ *** 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.