$BUILD_USER not expanded in Jenkins email notification

Question

We use Email Notification plugin as the last build step. When the build is started manually in Jenkins, the $BUILD_USER will expanded properly and show the user name who starts the build. But when the build is triggered automatically by a new commit in GitHub, it shows like this? How can I fix this?

Build Status : Fixed
Build Cause : MANUALTRIGGER
Build user : $BUILD_USER 
Build User ID: $BUILD_USER_ID 
Build Number : 57
Build Id : 57

Check if [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/36213488/3623345) answer helps you out. Reason is, on non-git-triggered builds these vars dont get populated. — Dominik Gebhart, Mar 29 '16 at 22:02

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '16 at 13:34

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The variable wasn't there by default, it requires a new plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+User+Vars+Plugin

answered Mar 31 '16 at 13:34

Jirong Hu

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$BUILD_USER not expanded in Jenkins email notification

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