Christian Bell wrote on mutt-users:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Dave Murray wrote:
>
> > If I were to change it to:
> > 127.0.0.1 bozo clown.circus
>
> I wouldn't do such a thing since 127.0.0.1 is _reserved_ for localhost.
> Some programs (or scripts) might use localhost for some purpose. A simple
> example would be connecting to localhost:80 to see if a http service is
> active.
>
> > What will it mess up, make better, cause me to change?
>
> I think you should be looking hostname(1) to set your machine name or
> changing the relevent documentation entries for mutt and/or sendmail.
>
> Changing localhost is bad practice.
Thanks, glad that I asked, but confused. More reading for me I guess.
Dave
