Re: Warning (elmo): Please set `wl-message-id-domain' to get valid Message-ID string.

[Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>]

Hi Greg,

I don’t really understand how this functionality works. I’m pretty
sure you could ignore this error.

What I do is set `wl-insert-message-id' to nil and let my SMTP server
handle it.

best, Erik

On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:42:58 -0800, Greg Bognar
<greg.bognar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:19:09 -0800, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> > Possibly this?
> > 
> >   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.wanderlust.general/4664
> 
> You said in that message that "This warning message is printed when
> wl-message-id-domain does not contain a dot (.). You need to set
> wl-message-id-domain to “gmail.com”, not “gmail”."
> 
> Alas, no, I have the dot.
> 
> http://www.gohome.org/wl/doc/wl_38.html says:
> 
> "wl-message-id-domain
> The initial setting is nil. If non-nil, this value is used as a domain part
> of the `Message-ID:'. If your terminal does not have global IP address, set
> unique string to this value (e.x. your e-mail address)."
> 
> I tried the email address trick, it doesn't work.
> 
> Confusingly, http://www.gohome.org/wl/doc/wl_38.html then says:
> 
> "wl-message-id-domain
> The initial setting is nil. If nil, the return value of the function
> system-name will be used as the domain part of `Message-ID:'. If system-name
> does not return FQDN (i.e. the full name of the host, like
> `smtp.gohome.org'), you must set this variable to the string of the full
> name of the host. Otherwise, you might be beaten up on the Net News."
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this.
> 
> What puzzles me is why I get the warning on one machine but not the other.
> 
> Perhaps the real question is: is there any harm in not setting the variable?
> If not, can we get rid of it?  That is, other than modifying
> wl-check-environment so that it doesn't print the warning?
> 
> > On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:40:43 -0800, Greg Bognar <greg.bognar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have two computers which use the same wl config.
> > > 
> > > On one of them, a laptop, I get "Warning (elmo): Please set
> > > `wl-message-id-domain' to get valid Message-ID string" every time I start
> > > wl.  On the other, a desktop in the office, I don't.
> > > 
> > > The warning does not seem to cause any problems in using wl.  It's just
> > > annoying.
> > > 
> > > I have vague recollections that this has come up before, but a Google search
> > > did not turn up anything useful.
> > > 
> > > Can someone explain what this is, and how I can solve it?  To what (and how)
> > > should I set wl-message-id-domain?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Greg
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