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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm Configure
Message-ID: <935@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 21:46:06 GMT
References: <642@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +1 (415) 966-1151
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Steven L. Baur of TRW writes:

> Are there any installations out there that *have* to have the hostname
> hardcoded?  The wording of that question (present in the Dave Taylor days)
> sounds like he had an axe to grind somewhere.

Well, I'm confused.  I just looked over the Configure.sh script that
was in the last "Dave Taylor days" release (I like the sound of that! :-)
and I can't find anything to do with hardcoded hostnames.  

All that I can find that might be related is the question:

	Are you running a machine where you want to have a domain name 
	appended to the hostname on outbound mail [no] ?

and then a test to see if the system has 'gethostname()' available
(a call that *wasn't* available on all Unix boxes when I last had my
fingers in the distribution, at least.  It might be now, however)

Also, in the 2.1 release of Elm at least, you could simply tell the
program not to build the From: lines at all (DONT_ADD_FROM) and then 
it would let the lower level mail transport agent put in whatever was 
appropriate.  Which neatly avoids the problem of hardcoded domain 
names that you refer to...

I would be most interested in the 'axe grinding' prompts that you're
talking about, Steven!  Can you perhaps email me a copy of that bit
of the configure script?

			Straight from the stables,

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

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