Rails - Sending emails with name not working

Question

I'm trying to send mails with the name of the user in the from address. Something like "John Doe <john@doe.com>". I went through a lot of SO solutions, but still couldn't get this to work.

Here's the mailer:

def trigger_email(send_mail, contact, user)
    @mailer = send_mail
    @email = contact.email
    @user = User.find(user)
    mail(to: @email, subject: @mailer.subject, from: "\"#{@user.name}\" <@user.email>")
end

I have tried quite a few variants of the above but nothing works. Would appreciate a solution to this issue.

try some variants from answers for this question - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/957422/rails-actionmailer-format-sender-and-recipient-name-email-address — Sergey Sokolov, Dec 15 '14 at 12:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '14 at 21:28

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The from: value in the mail() line seems to be wrong. Try:

mail(to: @email, subject: @mailer.subject, from: "#{@user.name} <#{@user.email}>")

If that does not work, check with your email provider, maybe they're altering that?

answered Dec 15 '14 at 21:28

dgilperez

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Rails - Sending emails with name not working

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