Subject: Pine can't find user-domain?

From: [email-masked] (Edward N. Zalta)
Date: 9 Sep 1996 16:32:23 GMT

After a recent software system upgrade, pine began to report errors on 
startup, namely:
 
>   Incomplete maildomain "plato".
>   Return address in mail you send may be incorrect.

"plato" is the name of the hostmachine and the domain is stanford.edu. 
Since pine doesn't yield these errors on one of our other machines, with the 
same system software, I suspect there is a corrupt system file somewhere. 
We are using NeXTSTEP3.3 and the precompiled version of pine 
(pine-bin.next.Z) from the archive on ftp.cac.washington.edu.
Adding the line "user-domain=stanford.edu" doesn't seem to help; pine then 
appends the return addres "[email-masked]" rather than 
"[email-masked]".  But adding "user-domain=plato.stanford.edu"
yields the correct return address.  However, we haven't had to add this file 
on our other system using the same system software. 
  Does anyone know where pine looks for the domain name on unix systems?
I am sure it can find the hostname "plato" from /etc/hostconfig.  But where 
does it get the rest of the domain name?
  Thanks for your help.
Ed

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Edward N. Zalta
Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information
Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Stanford University
Home Page URL = http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html