Bug#4477: Emacs doesn't use /etc/mailname

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Subject: Bug#4477: Emacs doesn't use /etc/mailname
From: sysadmin@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Ian Jackson)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 96 23:53 BST
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Mark W. Eichin writes ("Re: Bug#4477: Emacs doesn't use /etc/mailname"):
> umm, should it? I believe that emacs trusts the MUA to do the right
> thing, leaving mail-host-address for the *user* to override if they wish...

If /etc/mailname is not the same as `hostname -q` then
mail-host-address should IMO be set to its contents.

Ian.

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- Bug#4477: Emacs doesn't use /etc/mailname
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