How to designate sender Name in Action Mailer

Question

In Gmail, the following email address

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default from: 'no-reply@example.com'
end

Turns into this (the second item)

Is there anyway to have the "from" address be "no-reply" but have the from name be something more meaningful?

I have noticed my email form SumAll renders as from "SumAll" but with a different reply to address as below:

From: =?utf-8?Q?SumAll?= <mailing@sumall.com>

Any idea how to manage this with Action Mailer?

Answer 1

Check out section 2.3.4 of the ActionMailer documentation.

Specifically:

2.3.4 Sending Email With Name

Sometimes you wish to show the name of the person instead of just their email address when they receive the email. The trick to doing that is to format the email address in the format "Full Name ".

def welcome_email(user)
  @user = user
  email_with_name = "#{@user.name} <#{@user.email}>"
  mail(to: email_with_name, subject: 'Welcome to My Awesome Site')
end

If it's the same sender for all emails in your mailer, I'd suggest trying default from: "Some name <some-email@example.com>" - this should work as well.