diff --git a/syncmail b/syncmail
index d6b5a838..300dea30 100755
--- a/syncmail
+++ b/syncmail
@@ -220,7 +220,6 @@ def blast_mail(subject, people, filestodiff, contextlines, fromhost):
         conn = smtplib.SMTP()
         conn.connect(MAILHOST, MAILPORT)
         user = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
-	host = 
         domain = fromhost or getfqdn()
         author = '%s@%s' % (user, domain)
         s = StringIO()