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Explain when user-mail-address is set.

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@node User Identification
@section User Identification

@defvar user-mail-address
This holds the nominal email address of the user who is using Emacs.
When Emacs starts up, it computes a default value that is usually right,
but users often set this themselves when the default value is not right.
@end defvar

@defun user-login-name &optional uid
If you don't specify @var{uid}, this function returns the name under
which the user is logged in.  If the environment variable @code{LOGNAME}

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@node User Identification
@section User Identification

@defvar user-mail-address
This holds the nominal email address of the user who is using Emacs.
Emacs normally sets this variable to a default value after reading your
init files, but not if you have already set it.  So you can set the
variable to some other value in your @file{~/.emacs} file if you do not
want to use the default value.
@end defvar

@defun user-login-name &optional uid
If you don't specify @var{uid}, this function returns the name under
which the user is logged in.  If the environment variable @code{LOGNAME}