How can I setup a friendly email name in the MailSetting section of web.config?

Question

Currently I have:

<system.net>
    <mailSettings>
    <smtp from="[email protected]">
        <network 
             host="localhost" 
             port="25"
             />
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
  </system.net>

How can I change it so the email is sent with a name and not the email address only?

Ty. · Accepted Answer · 2008-10-31T02:17:39.827

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Well, in code you need to put the sender's name in quotes, followed by the e-mail address.

new SmtpClient(...).Send("\"John Smith\" [email protected]", ...);

And...it looks like you can encode it into the attribute too...

<smtp from="&quot;John Smith&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt;">

edited Oct 31 '08 at 02:17

answered Oct 31 '08 at 02:00

Ty.

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I think you can also put the sender's names in parenthesis after the email address: "[email protected] (John Smith)" – cfeduke Oct 31 '08 at 02:45
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The bracket method is valid and noted as a "legacy" method in the RFC http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#page-16 however the "display name" method shown here is recommended. – Adrian Clark Oct 31 '08 at 03:07

score -3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 20 '15 at 13:43

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<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp from ="XYZ&lt;[email protected]&gt;">
<network host="smtp.gmail.com" port="25" userName="[email protected]"    password="******" enableSsl="true"/>
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>

1)Please Use these setting in app.config file

answered Jan 20 '15 at 13:43

Aakash Dhoundiyal

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Your answer does not really add any value to the accepted answer that was posted over 6 years before yours. On the contrary, it adds noise to the page. Would you consider deleting it? Thanks! – Zero3 Mar 23 '16 at 15:36

How can I setup a friendly email name in the MailSetting section of web.config?

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