BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Getting the user's email addres          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> C++ Builder (Native API) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Jeff Guest Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 2:22 pm    Post subject: Getting the user's email addres 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. Please advise, Jeff Back to top Alan Bellingham Guest Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Getting the user's email addres "Jeff" <Jeff (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote: Quote: 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 -- Me <url:mailto:alanb (AT) episys (DOT) com> <url:http://www.doughnut.demon.co.uk/> ACCU - C, C++ and Java programming <url:http://accu.org/> The 2004 Discworld Convention <url:http://dwcon.org/> Back to top Jeff Guest Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Getting the user's email addres 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 (AT) episys (DOT) com> wrote Quote: "Jeff" <Jeff (AT) nospam (DOT) 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 -- Me <url:mailto:alanb (AT) episys (DOT) com> http://www.doughnut.demon.co.uk/ ACCU - C, C++ and Java programming http://accu.org/ The 2004 Discworld Convention http://dwcon.org/ Back to top Remy Lebeau (TeamB) Guest Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Getting the user's email addres "Jeff" <Jeff (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote Quote: 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. There is no standard way to do what you ask. The email address is not stored by the OS anywhere, and any email program(s) that the user may be using will store the email address differently than every other email program. Every program is different. You would have to look at the specific settings of each individual program that you want to support (Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, etc), figure out which one is actually installed on the machine, figure out where the settings are stored, extract it manually, etc. You are better off just asking the user what his/her email address is. Gambit Back to top Remy Lebeau (TeamB) Guest Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 7:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Getting the user's email addres "Jeff" <Jeff (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I was just hoping to find a way to make it "fool-proof" for the user. There's pretty much no such thing ;-) Quote: Since we're all in the same domain, we each have an email address. The only other possibility to consider, other than what has already been stated, is if each user has a network login username that is the same mailbox name of their email addresses, and if the machine is logging into a network server that has the same domain as the email server. For example, if "joe" logs into network "smoe.com" and has an email address of "joe (AT) smoe (DOT) com", then you can use GetUserName() to find out who is currently logged into the machine, and LookupAccountName() to get the domain that the machine belongs to. Gambit Back to top Jeff Guest Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 8:31 pm    Post subject: Re: Getting the user's email addres Thanks. "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam (AT) no (DOT) spam.com> wrote Quote: "Jeff" <Jeff (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message news:4284b811 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... 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. There is no standard way to do what you ask. The email address is not stored by the OS anywhere, and any email program(s) that the user may be using will store the email address differently than every other email program. Every program is different. You would have to look at the specific settings of each individual program that you want to support (Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, etc), figure out which one is actually installed on the machine, figure out where the settings are stored, extract it manually, etc. You are better off just asking the user what his/her email address is. Gambit Back to top Jeff Guest Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Getting the user's email addres I guess I should have said this earlier, but this is for an engineering tool that will be used only within our organization. Therefore everyone is logging into the same domain, and has a similar email address (joe.smoe (AT) smoe (DOT) com). So I'd like to get the users full name somehow. I've looked at using NetUserGetInfo() but it doesn't work with Windows 98. I can get the user's UserName using GetUserName() (jsmoe), but I need a way to get the user's full name that is compatible with Windows 98. Thanks, Jeff "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam (AT) no (DOT) spam.com> wrote Quote: "Jeff" <Jeff (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message news:4284f5ee$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... I was just hoping to find a way to make it "fool-proof" for the user. There's pretty much no such thing ;-) Since we're all in the same domain, we each have an email address. The only other possibility to consider, other than what has already been stated, is if each user has a network login username that is the same mailbox name of their email addresses, and if the machine is logging into a network server that has the same domain as the email server. For example, if "joe" logs into network "smoe.com" and has an email address of "joe (AT) smoe (DOT) com", then you can use GetUserName() to find out who is currently logged into the machine, and LookupAccountName() to get the domain that the machine belongs to. 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