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Re: Getting the user's email addres

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From: Jeff
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:46
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This will be running on a machine that many people will log into and use. I 
was just hoping to find a way to make it "fool-proof" for the user. Since 
we're all in the same domain, we each have an email address.

"Alan Bellingham" <alanb@episys.com> wrote in message 
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> "Jeff" <Jeff@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know what the best way to get a logged in user's email address
>>would be? I've got a machine in a Windows domain which people log into, 
>>and
>>I'd like to find out the currently logged in user's email address.
>
> Why don't you ask the user?
>
> The way you ask this question makes several assumptions, including
>
> 1: The user has an email address
> 2: The user has one email address
> 3: The user doesn't mind your code knowing it
>
> I suggest you ask and then store the result in the registry under the
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER entry for future reference.
>
> Alan Bellingham
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