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List:       c-client
Subject:    re: Hostnames for hostless addresses
From:       Mark Crispin <MRC () CAC ! Washington ! EDU>
Date:       1992-10-02 9:35:11
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:14:05 +0300 (IDT), Laurence Lundblade wrote:
>   I'm looking for a way to tell the c-client what address to use
> when qualifying domainless addresses. Right now it use the result
> of gethostbyname (the /etc/hosts, YP and DNS lookup). This
> results in an address with a hostname in it, where it might be
> better not to have one. Also, one can't always control what the
> hostname is set too. I realize that it would be best to have the
> addresses in the mail files fully qualified, but that isn't
> possible in this case.
>   Could either an argument be added to mail_open, or a
> mail_setdomain() call be added to set the domain name so the
> calling program could control this? Then for example in Pine,
> all the domain names would be consistent.

The very latest c-client (not yet publicly released) makes this available via
a global char* variable called lhostn which the main program can set.  If it
does not, c-client defaults it as before.

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