.TH EADDRESS 1 2017-01-24 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual"
.SH NAME
eaddress \- check edirect's notion of your e\-mail address
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B eaddress

.B edirect -address
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBeaddress\fP prints (to standard output) the e\-mail address
that other \fBedirect\fP(1) subcommands will send by default
to have someone to notify in case
a runaway script causes problems with an NCBI Entrez server.
If the \fBEMAIL\fP environment variable is set,
\fBedirect\fP will honor it.
Otherwise, it will combine a username
from the \fBUSER\fP environment variable
or reported by \fBwhoami\fP(1)
with a hostname from \fB/etc/mailname\fP
or \fBuname\fP(2),
attempting to obtain a fully qualified form if necessary.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR econtact (1),
.BR edirect (1),
.BR whoami (1).