I've been googling and reading, and find that there's no consistency in setting the value of hostname.
My FQDN is teufel.hartford-hwp.com. A few places said to use the localhost name ("teufel"), in some others, it suggested just the domain ("hartford-hwp.com"), and most often it is the FQDN. Changing the hostname is intimidating. I see (inconsistent) directions for doing so, but also the warnings: Never do it! I gather it does things to .Xauthority which are bad, and when I grep my /etc directory to see what needs changing, there are entries in /ssh/ that I'm afraid to edit by hand. I think I'll stick with what I have, since for a stand-alone workstation, the hostname does not make much difference anyway. If my current hostname is OK, then the problem boils down to gnus. When I send messages to a newsgroup, it sets the From line to my FQDN, and that is unacceptable for a specific reason. So where does gnus get the value to put in the From line of the header of outgoing messages? Simply from /etc/hostname, /etc/mailname, or /etc/postfix/main.cf ? I need to tell gnus to use just my domain name in the From line in the header. Anyone know how to do that? Unfortunately, nntp server may not like it. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]