Re: OS X (or other OS's): how to get a fully-qualified domain name?

[John Owens]

Barry Margolin <barmar <at> alum.mit.edu> writes:
> It's pretty unusual to want to put the machine name in your email 
> address.  Are you sure this is what you really want?

All I really want it for is generating message-IDs, which need
to be globally unique. Right now generating message-IDs uses
system-name by default, but system-name doesn't include the domain
name and is thus not globally unique.

JDO