Re: message-Id has localhost

[Michael Richardson]

Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> wrote:
    > That would be a nmh-style Message-ID; the first number is the process
    > id of whatever generated that (probably post(8)), the second is a Unix
    > timestamp.  Do you have -msgid set in your profile for send(1)?

Yes.
But, how to I get it to put in the hostname?
I want nmh-style message-IDs so that my outbox will have them.

    >> I think that mts.conf ought to set this, but localname/localdomain do not
    >> seem right, and they aren't set, so my hostname (which is correct, I 
think)
    >> ought to be used.
    >>
    >> I'm running 1.7+dev ... NOPE.
    >> I'm actually rather unsure how to get a --version out of NMH.

    > I think pretty much anything takes a -version flag?

hmm. -version/-v. not --version. not -V. Silly me.

    >> Still have @localhost in the message-id.

    > From the code, that's calling LocalName(1).

    > What that does is: getaddrinfo(gethostname(), AI_CANONNAME).  So maybe
    > your resolver library canonicalizes your hostname to "localhost"?  If
    > getaddrinfo() fails then it falls back to the value of gethostname().

yes. that's it.

127.0.0.1       localhost       obiwan.sandelman.ca obiwan

which is often required for certain things work, but I don't remember what
now.  I'll change it see what breaks.  Is there any override?
Let's see this message.

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