On 8 Jan 2013, at 11:40 AM, Adi <adnan.smajlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > Mine is putting properly company name in front of the address, by using: > mail.settings.sender = 'Company', but knowing that you are a guru here, may > not be at all what you are looking for... If you wanted I could send you a > sample email privately to see if that's what you needed?
I'd appreciate it, thanks. > > Adnan > > > > > On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:32:23 PM UTC-5, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > I tried to persuade the web2py emailer to use a full name (like: 'My Name > <mym...@mail.com>') in the From: header by setting it in the headers > argument, but it didn't work: From continued to be set to the value of sender > (the bare email address). > > As I read the code, From is initialized to the value of sender, but should be > overridden by headers. And for reference, if I set 'X-From' instead, that did > end up in the headers as I would have expected. > > The Python smtplib suggests that it doesn't mess with the embedded headers. I > suppose it could be happening farther down the line, and eventually I'll do > some experimentation, but I thought I'd see whether anyone on the list has > solved the problem first. > > > -- > > > --