How do I get the email address of the author of a SharePoint list item?

Question

As title says, I have access to the current listitem - and it's easy enough to get the author/created by name - but how do I retrieve the e-mail address of the author in C# from the object model?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can get the SPUser from a SPFieldUserValue object:

SPFieldUserValue userValue = 
    new SPFieldUserValue(web, item[SPBuiltInFieldId.Author].ToString());
SPUser user = userValue.User;
string email = user.Email;