Kirby Emails: how to define "from" name

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I want to send a Email and im using this manual here: https://getkirby.com/docs/guide/emails

How can i define the “name” of the sender?

i thought it would be like this, but it doesnt work like this. the result is an php error.

'from' => 'John Doe <john.doe@doe.com>',
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Hi,
can you show us the whole mail array?

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While the PHPMailer setFrom() method supports a name parameter:

public function setFrom($address, $name = '', $auto = true)

Kirby’s mailer wrapper doesn’t use that parameter:

 $mailer->setFrom($this->from());

So, I’d say currently not possible and time for a feature wish.

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Hello :slight_smile:
This was possible in Kirby 2, right the way you wrote it.
Porting my v2 code to v3, I cannot specify people’s names anymore…
For information, the php error is that email fields from/to/replyTo are matched against V::email, failing as expected.

Edit : Just found an undocumented feature :

    'from' => 'john.doe@doe.com',
    'fromName' => 'John Doe',
    'replyTo' => 'noreply@doe.com',
    'replyToName' => 'No Reply',
    'to' => 'john.doe@doe.com',
    // 'toName' doesn't exist !
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If you are interested in some advanced means to modify email headers, the outcome of this PR could be of interest (best read from bottom up for the specs that got implemented in 3.3.2)

The to , cc and bcc props now accept key-value arrays with 'email' => 'name' while being backwards-compatible to simple arrays with just email addresses or mixed arrays. Simple strings with just an email are still supported as well. If a user object or an array/a collection of user objects is passed, the email and name are both automatically extracted from the object(s).

The from and replyTo props work a little bit differently as they only support one email address, not an array: The email address can be passed to those props like before and there are new props fromName and replyToName for the names. If a user object is passed to from or replyTo , the names are populated automatically but can also be overridden with different values.

…just dumping this here to keep the link archived for myself …as I’ve been digging it up already twice :wink:

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Thanks ! 2 solutions for both simple and advanced use.
Have a nice day :slight_smile: