Question

Currently I have:

<system.net>     <mailSettings>     <smtp from='[e-mail]'>         <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?

Answer 1

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

new SmtpClient(...).Send('\'John Smith\' [e-mail]', ...); 

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

<smtp from='&quot;John Smith&quot; &lt;[e-mail]&gt;'>