Question

I am sending emails to users using Django through Google Apps.

When the user receives emails sent from the Django app, they are from:
[e-mail]

when looking at all emails in the inbox, people see the email’s sender as:
do_not_reply or [e-mail] depending on the email client used

If I log into that "do_not_reply" account using the browser and Google Apps itself and then send an email to myself, the emails are from:
Don't Reply <[e-mail]>

As a result, the name displayed for the email’s sender in the inbox is:
Don't Reply

In Django, is there a way to attach a "name" to the email account being used to send emails?

I have reviewed Django’s mail.py, but had no luck finding a solution
http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/core/mail.py?rev=5548

Using:

• Django 1.1
• Python 2.6
• Ubuntu 9.1
• settings.EMAIL_HOST = smtp.gmail.com

Answer 1

You can actually use "Don't Reply <[e-mail]>" as the email address you send from.

Try this in the shell of your Django project to test if it also works with gapps:

>>> from django.core.mail import send_mail
>>> send_mail('subject', 'message', "Don't Reply <[e-mail]>", ['[e-mail]'])