Machine name: localhost

[David Abrahams]

"Eamonn Sullivan" <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> writes:

>
> localhost is a standard name. 

Sure.

> You want it in there. 

Hmm, not so sure about that.  Whatever is sticking it on every line of
/var/log/syslog, at least, expects to find a more useful name I'm
sure.  Every machine is localhost to itself.  I'm pretty sure those
syslogs are supposed to identify the machine usefully.

> What are you using
> to send the email? It looks like (from above) that you're using emacs,
> is that correct?

Gnus/emacs.  And I have used it successfully it to send through that
server for years (from NTEmacs, i.e. on a windoze box).  I never see
localhost in my mail headers sent from that machine, even when mail
comes back to me for whatever reason.

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Dave Abrahams
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