Learn-to-send-email-via-google-script-html-no-server: Name of sender in mail-header

[FVDDEV]

hi..
In my case , everything works fine except one thing.
how can I place 'sender name' in the mail-from-header at the place of email address?
That is, when user will submit a form which has email and name both. I want name instead email in FROM field.
Is there any possible way to do so?

[mckennapsean]

You could check into the Mail API code to see if you can have stringed names, such as "John Doe [e-mail]", but I am unsure if that works. Otherwise, contacts in your mail client could be used. It may be possible to hook into that using an API as well, then you could add contacts automatically, but that is a little overkill probably.

[FVDDEV]

thank you for your reply. i tried adding info such as "John Doe
john.[email protected]" but then mail stops being sent.

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Sean McKenna [e-mail]
wrote:

You could check into the Mail API code to see if you can have stringed
names, such as "John Doe john.[email protected]", but I am unsure if that
works. Otherwise, contacts in your mail client could be used. It may be
possible to hook into that using an API as well, then you could add
contacts automatically, but that is a little overkill probably.

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[mckennapsean]

I am not sure how to do this then without digging into the API.

[jakkrobbit]

If I'm understanding this correctly, I think the you're looking for the MailApp's "name" parameter. That will actually change the name that appears in the user's inbox.

MailApp.sendEmail({   
  name: "Candy Store",
  to: TO_ADDRESS,
  subject: "New Order Submitted", 
  replyTo: String(mailData.email),
  htmlBody: formatMailBody(mailData)
});

The recipient will receive an email from "Candy Store" with the subject "New Order Submitted".

[mckennapsean]

thanks for sharing that solution @jakkrobbit !

[FVDDEV]

If I'm understanding this correctly, I think the you're looking for the MailApp's "name" parameter. That will actually change the name that appears in the user's inbox.

MailApp.sendEmail({   
  name: "Candy Store",
  to: TO_ADDRESS,
  subject: "New Order Submitted", 
  replyTo: String(mailData.email),
  htmlBody: formatMailBody(mailData)
});

The recipient will receive an email from "Candy Store" with the subject "New Order Submitted".

thank you for the solution... :)