How to change From Name in Laravel Mail Notification

Question

This is the problem:

The name associated with the email shows up as "Example"

`->from('example@example.com', 'Awesome Name')` – EddyTheDove Feb 01 '17 at 05:19 — EddyTheDove, Feb 01 '17 at 05:19

score 76 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 01 '22 at 09:17

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In config/mail.php

set from property as:

'from' => ['address' => 'someemail@example.com', 'name' => 'Firstname Lastname']

Here, address should be the one that you want to display in from email and name should be the one what you want to display in from name.

P.S. This will be a default email setting for each email you send.

If you need to use the Name as a variable through code, you can also call the function from() as follows (copying from Brad Ahrens answer below which I think is good to mention here):

return $this
    ->from($address = 'noreply@example.com', $name = 'Sender name')
    ->subject('Here is my subject')
    ->view('emails.view');

edited Jul 01 '22 at 09:17

Stephen Ostermiller

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answered Feb 01 '17 at 05:20

Dev

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Thank for replying, even though i have found it first then your comment.. – Masterpiece Mas Icang Feb 02 '17 at 17:16
Of course yes. But in the said comment you need to do this in each and every Mail::send() method wherever you use it. But in my case you don't need to do it. Thanks for accepting this answer. – Dev Feb 03 '17 at 04:43
if we configure like this, can we overwrite the from address as mentioned in the above comment? – HexaCrop Aug 27 '19 at 09:10
Yes, you can. Please see answer below from @Haseena P A. – Dev Aug 27 '19 at 11:12
->from('info@websitedomain.com', 'Website Name') worked for me. Thanks. – Kamlesh Sep 08 '20 at 14:39

score 35 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '17 at 05:59

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You can use

 Mail::send('emails.welcome', $data, function($message)
    {
        $message->from('us@example.com', 'Laravel');

        $message->to('foo@example.com')->cc('bar@example.com');
    });

Reference - https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/mail

answered Feb 01 '17 at 05:59

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score 16 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '19 at 05:07

A better way would be to add the variable names and values in the .env file.

Example:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=example@example.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

MAIL_FROM_NAME="My Name"
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=support@example.com

Notice the last two lines. Those will correlate with the from name and from email fields within the Email that is sent.

score 16 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 27 '19 at 09:21

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In the case of google SMTP, the from address won't change even if you give this in the mail class. This is due to google mail's policy, and not a Laravel issue. Thought I will share it here.

answered Aug 27 '19 at 09:21

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score 10 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 01 '22 at 09:19

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For anyone who is using Laravel 5.8 and landed on this question, give this a shot, it worked for me:

Within the build function of the mail itself (not the view, but the mail):

public function build()
{
    return $this
        ->from($address = 'noreply@example.com', $name = 'Sender name')
        ->subject('Here is my subject')
        ->view('emails.welcome');
}

Happy coding :)

edited Jul 01 '22 at 09:19

Stephen Ostermiller

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answered Aug 12 '19 at 11:23

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score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 01 '22 at 09:21

If you want global 'from name' and 'from email',
Create these 2 keys in .env file
MAIL_FROM_NAME="global from name"
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=support@example.com

And remove 'from' on the controller. or PHP code if you declare manually. now it access from name and from email.

config\mail.php

 'from' => [
        'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', 'info@example.com'),
        'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'write name if not found in env'),
    ],

ON my controller.

$conUsBody = '';

        $conUsBody .= '<h2 class="text-center">Hello Admin,</h2>
                        <b><p> '.trim($request->name).' Want some assesment</p></b>
                        <p>Here are the details:</p>
                        <p>Name: '.trim($request->name).'</p>
                        <p>Email: '.trim($request->email).'</p>
                        <p>Subject: '.trim($request->subject).'</p>';

      $contactContent = array('contactusbody' =>  $conUsBody);

      Mail::send(['html' => 'emails.mail'], $contactContent,

      function($message) use ($mailData)
      {
        $message->to('my.personal.email@example.com', 'Admin')->subject($mailData['subject']);
        $message->attach($mailData['attachfilepath']);
      });
      return back()->with('success', 'Thanks for contacting us!');
    }

My blade template.

<body>
{!! $contactusbody !!}
</body>

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 05 '18 at 17:39

I think that you have an error in your fragment of code. You have
from(config('app.senders.info'), 'My Full Name')
so config('app.senders.info') returns array.
Method from should have two arguments: first is string contains address and second is string with name of sender. So you should change this to
from(config('app.senders.info.address'), config('app.senders.info.name'))

How to change From Name in Laravel Mail Notification

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