Setting the from name with nodemailer and sestransport

Question

I am sending emails from NodeJS using Nodemailer and sestransport on AWS, and am wondering how I can change the 'from name'?

fFr example, for from I put

    const mailOptions =
    {
      from:     '<noreply@example.com>',
      to:       'someone@example.com',
      subject:  'Hi',
    }

When I get the email, it appears to come from 'noreply'. I would like to be able to change to name to anything, for example 'tom hanks', but still have the reply address noreply@example.com. Is that possible?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '19 at 01:19

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Simply specify it before the email address:

const mailOptions =
{
  from:     '"Tom Hanks" <noreply@example.com>',
  to:       'someone@example.com',
  subject:  'Hi',
}

answered Feb 07 '19 at 01:19

Azami

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '19 at 01:24

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my bad, i just found out how. just do

const mailOptions =
{
  from:     'Tom Hanks <noreply@example.com>',
  to:       'someone@example.com',
  subject:  'Hi',
}

and then the sender name appears as Tom Hanks

answered Feb 07 '19 at 01:24

user1709076

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 03 '21 at 20:14

You can specify Address object with name and address properties. name property will be friendly-name for the sender, and address field will be the actual sender email.

const mailOptions = {
  from: { name: 'Naruto Uzumaki', address: 'noreply@example.com' },
  to: 'someone@example.com',
  subject: 'Hi',
}

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 07 '19 at 08:10

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If you don't want to hard code your name you can use template string

const mailOptions = 
{
  from:   `${myNameVariable} <noreplay@example.com>`,
  to:      mySenderVariable,
  subject: mySubjectVariable
}

answered Feb 07 '19 at 08:10

GisliBG

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Setting the from name with nodemailer and sestransport

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