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Subject: Re: [Proposal] Retrieve MAILADDRESS as user-mail-address default
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Is the envvar MAILADDRESS customarily used by other mailers?
If so, it would be good for Emacs to handle it.
Otherwise, I don't see that this is particularly useful as 
a new feature.