B4J Question B4J send email, question about email sender ...

Pietro Pancino · Wednesday at 5:45 PM

Hi all!
I work on a specific app that send mail to customers.
Every thing is working fine, but I just wonder il there is à way to hide the real email like in the first line (in picture), and put a nickname like Linkedin...

I send the mail like this:

String definition:

dim from_mail as string = "sender@mail.com
smtp.Sender=from_mail

Maybe there is a way to encode the email string address like:

String definition:

dim from_mail as string = "sender@mail.com [The Sender]"

In order to have The sender display in outlook for example instead of sender@mail.com

It's not a big deal, but it's more informative for the person receiving the mail...

If anyone have an idea!

;-)

aeric · Wednesday at 6:58 PM

How about?

B4X:

Dim from_mail As String = "The Sender <sender@mail.com>"

SMTP Reply-to email

Hi, I am sending a email using SMTP but trying to work out how to add a reply-to (or make it show it sent from someone else) Currently it's sending fine by using: SMTP.Initialize(smtpServer, smtpPort, "my@email.com", "xxxxxx", "smtp") SMTP.UseSSL = True SMTP.Sender = "myname"...

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DonManfred · Thursday at 5:32 AM

Pietro Pancino said:
dim from_mail as string = "sender@mail.com [The Sender]"

Usually it should be defined as something like

B4X:

dim from_mail as string = "The Sender <sender@mail.com>"

DonManfred · Thursday at 5:41 AM

Pietro Pancino said:
and put a nickname like Linkedin...

TIP: Let your emailclient show you the sourcecode of the email.
You´ll see how linkedin is defined in the email.

Pietro Pancino · Thursday at 2:08 PM

Thanks to you Aeric and DonManfred!!!!

After one hour of tests I have found the solution :
When you send the mail, you have to make the difference beetween Username of smpt.initialize() versus email.Mailfrom and smtp.sender.
The good code is:

the good one:

    dim smtp as smtp
    dim user_name as string = "name@site.com"    
    dim mail_to as string = "mail_to@site1.com"

    'init of smtp
    smtp.Initialize(smtp.site.com,25 ,user_name , "1234", "SMTP")
    
'  init  the mail with alias  ' as you had recommended !!!
   Dim the_mail_from As String = "Alias name <" & user_name & ">"  
'   or It's works too :-)
'   Dim the_mail_from As String = $""Alias name""$& " <" & user_name & ">"
 
    smtp.MailFrom = the_mail_from
    smtp.Sender = the_mail_from
    smtp.To.Add(mail_to)
    .....
    smtp.Send

During my firts tests, I was setting then Username = "nick name <name@site.com>", it was wrong, the Username of smtp have to be the real mail, and the smtp.sender and smpt.MailFrom the Email formated with the nick name... in fact it's logical!!! ... ohhhhh ! I'm too old for this job

Many thanks to you to bring me on the good way!!

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