How to specify name in Django mail?

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I am using django's core.mail package in conjunction with django-registration for a new user sign up workflow. I have an email account, "no-reply@(mycompany).com" through my company's google mail service, that i want to use to send these emails. In the google mail account settings i set the name for the email account as "(MyCompany) Support" so that if I mail directly from google mail, the emails come in from the account as being from "(MyCompany) Support ". However, when i use django's email settings to send mail, the emails show up in a client's email box as being from "no-reply" which is ugly and may be a bit off-putting to a new client. Is there a way to specify a "Name" for an email address when sending using django's built-in mailer so that the see the "Name" displayed when they get the email?

Here are my current settings in settings.py:

EMAIL_HOST='smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT=587
EMAIL_HOST_USER='no-reply@mycompany.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='**********'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

Please see this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2111452/giving-email-account-a-name-when-sending-emails-with-django-through-google-apps — Mikael, Mar 28 '12 at 16:15

score 28 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '12 at 16:15

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You can use

"(MyCompany) Support <no-reply@mycompany.com>"

as the from address in the call to send_mail.

answered Mar 28 '12 at 16:15

RotaJota

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score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '12 at 21:01

Those solutions are useful if you're using django's email package directly. However, i didn't want to look for a hook to override the way that django-registration uses send_mail so I found the following setting when going through the django files, which lets you set a default from email.

 DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL='(My Company) Support <no-reply@mycompany.com>'

and it worked!

Figured someone else may find it useful, although i'm not so pretentious as to mark my own answer as correct.

Looks like you can put the same value in for `SERVER_EMAIL` as well! — Sahas Katta, Jun 24 '12 at 01:36

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 07 '14 at 19:11

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DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL='(My Company) Support '

Helped me to solve the issue.

answered May 07 '14 at 19:11

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score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 28 '18 at 15:15

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You can use ADMINS and MANAGERS tuples in setting.py. E.g.:

ADMINS = (('Your Name', 'email@company.com),)

And then:

django.core.email.mail_managers('subject', 'body')

edited Sep 28 '18 at 15:15

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answered Mar 28 '12 at 16:39

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 20 '22 at 10:35

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Another explicit way is to use the Address

read my other answer here

from email.headerregistry import Address

DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = Address(display_name="Company Name", addr_spec="info@domain.com")

answered Jun 20 '22 at 10:35

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How to specify name in Django mail?

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