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does django send_mail() support custom 'from'?

my django app is sending emails (via SendGrid API) using django.core.mail's send_mail

send_mail(
    subject='foo',
    message=message,
    from_email=settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL,
    recipient_list=[user.email],
    fail_silently=False,
    html_message=rendered)

the emails send fine but since it's sending from [email protected] the email "From" alias in inboxes just shows up as "hi", and I'd like to make it more verbose so my recipients know who sent them the email ("Hi from AppName"). I don't see any field in send_mail docs (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/email/) for customizing how the "From" sender alias string appears (beyond the email itself) other than 'The “From:” header of the email will be the value of the SERVER_EMAIL setting'. does django's send_mail not support this (i.e., I need to rewrite this to using a sendgrid lib? https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python?) or is there a config setting in SendGrid where I can automatically set 'fromname'? thanks

Is that

Solution

  • Your example includes from_email=settings.DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL. The docs say that the more verbose form is permitted, for example:

    from_email="Hi from Appname <[email protected]>",

    You might also be able to change DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL to the more verbose form. However the docs don't say whether this is supported or not, so I'm not sure whether this would cause problems somewhere.