From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-01-31T17:21:29+09:00
Subject: Re: How deliver emails with sender's name

Marco Mastrodonato wrote in post #978597:
> Sometimes i need to specify a name to show it when email is received.
> Into "from" field i use this format:
> addresser <some@something.com>
>
> To do this i have to update smtp.rb file:
> #C:\ruby\ruby-187p330\lib\ruby\1.8\net\smtp.rb
>
>     def mailfrom(from_addr)
>       if $SAFE > 0
>         raise SecurityError, 'tainted from_addr' if from_addr.tainted?
>       end
>       #getok("MAIL FROM:<#{from_addr}>") #before
>       str = from_addr.to_s =~ /<.+>/ ? from_addr.to_s.match(/<.+>/).to_s
> : "<#{from_addr}>" #marcomd
>       getok("MAIL FROM:#{str}") #marcomd
>     end

mailfrom is for the SMTP envelope. You should only ever pass it a bare 
E-mail address, never an RFC 2822 name-addr (comment plus E-mail address 
in angle brackets).

In other words: your client code should strip this out before calling 
send_message or open_message_stream, you don't need to hack Net::SMTP to 
do this.

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