From: Kevin Smith <sent@...>
Date: 2001-03-20T12:51:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12903] Re: How do I send messages with SMTP with anadditional name?

Minero Aoki wrote:
>    Tammo Freese <tammo.freese@offis.de> wrote:
>> Net::SMTP.start("polaris-neu.offis.uni-oldenburg.de") do |smtp|
>>     smtp.sendmail(msg, '"Tammo Freese" <tammo.freese@offis.de>',
>> 'tammo.freese@offis.de')
>> end
>> 
>> But the From: part of the mail is always tammo.freese@offis.de, without the
>> name in '"'. Is there a workaround for this?
>
>SMTP-From is different from From: field of email.
>From: field is a content of email and SMTP-From is delivery data.
>And Net::SMTP is not a message composer but (only) a sender
>because composing email message is out of range for "SMTP" class.

In other words, put your fancy "from" information 
in the From field inside your "msg". The from 
parameter you pass to sendmail is (I believe) 
just to identify yourself to the smtp server.

Also, if you're doing anything significant with 
email, consider using the TMail lib in the RAA (I 
started without it, but ended up using it--
especially for the encode/decode functions).

Kevin