On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:33:49 +0100, Stefano Calza wrote: > > When I start emacs on "testing" I get this message: > > No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default > > It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove > it. How can I configure emacs not to ask for that file? Why not just create it? As root: "cat /dev/null > /etc/mailname"