Uwe Brauer writes: > Hello > > This seems odd, running (K)ubuntu 8.04 and xemacs 21.4.21 > it seems that mail-host-address is set automatically to the name of the > machine as specified in /etc/hosts. On Linux, XEmacs should get this information from the gethostname() system or libc function, and then ask the DNS for the fully qualified domain name. > However in (K)ubuntu 6.01 and 21.4.19 that is not true the variable > is nil. Sounds weird to me. Are these (K)ubuntu versions of XEmacs or self-compiled? Do you get a different result if you do xemacs -vanilla or xemacs -vanilla -no-start-file?