Question

I have a very simple piece of code (just for testing):

import smtplib import time  server = 'smtp.myprovider.com' recipients = ['[e-mail]'] sender = '[e-mail]' message = 'Subject: [PGS]: Results\n\nBlaBlaBla'  session = smtplib.SMTP(server)  session.sendmail(sender,recipients,message); 

This works but the problem is that e-mail clients don’t display a sender. I want to be able to add a sender name to the e-mail. Suggestions?

Answer 1

smtplib doesn’t automatically include a From: header, so you have to put one in yourself:

message = 'From: [e-mail]\nSubject: [PGS]: Results\n\nBlaBlaBla' 

(In fact, smtplib doesn’t include any headers automatically, but just sends the text that you give it as a raw message)