EmailMessage Sender's name

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 10, 2016, 4:24pm

I want to be able to send an email from a webservice I am currently making.
How can I show my name in the address field.
I tried this in the MailFrom Field:

dim msg as new EmailMessage
msg.FromAddress = "My Name <info@domain.com>"

But that doesn’t work. Should I use a header instead?

Beatrix_Willius · March 10, 2016, 4:36pm

This should work. Can you be a bit more concrete than “doesn’t work”? Can you post your code and how the mail ends up at your mail client?

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 10, 2016, 6:57pm

Well… The SMTP secure socket keeps firing error code 22.
And I have no idea what that means. Error 22 is not documented in the SMTPSecureSocket

Tim_Parnell · March 10, 2016, 7:01pm

A little bit of google, and tada, maxprog thread on the issue: http://www.maxprog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5149
Maxprog uses Xojo so I would bet the result is the same.

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 10, 2016, 7:08pm

[quote=252478:@Tim Parnell]A little bit of google, and tada, maxprog thread on the issue: http://www.maxprog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5149
Maxprog uses Xojo so I would bet the result is the same.[/quote]

In the documentation of SocketCore.LastErrorCode I see a link.
From what I understand it means “Invalid Argument”.

I don’t use port 25. My server uses port 465 for SSL connections. I entered the correct username and password.
Do you think I need to include certificates?

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 10, 2016, 7:14pm

When I set SMTP.Secure = False, and set the correct non-secure port number, 587 in my case… everything works well.
But to be able to send mail through a secure connection would be nice.

Tim_Parnell · March 10, 2016, 7:45pm

It may be that it’s not responding because you’re not using the right security type.
Which security setting are you using?

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 10, 2016, 7:49pm

I used the smtp.ModeSSLTLS connectionmode and all the different security types.
smtp.SSLv23 should work, not?

Christian_Schmitz · March 10, 2016, 8:45pm

Do you use MBS Plugins?
If you send via CURL and our CurlEmailMBS class, you can set from with name and email and the plugin will make sure the name is encoded properly.

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 10, 2016, 9:12pm

Well… I found a way to add a name to the FromAddress.
In the message object I must not assign anything to the FromAddress property. Instead I add a header:

mail.Headers.AppendHeader "From", mailFromName + " <" + mailFromAddress + ">"

But thanks @Christian Schmitz for the help. I will stick with this method for now.

I am still dealing with the whole SSL thing though. But I think I should start another conversation for that. SSL is kind of off-topic, I think

Beatrix_Willius · March 11, 2016, 6:00am

Edwin: sorry, this is nonsense. There is no difference between

mail.Headers.AppendHeader "From", mailFromName + " <" + mailFromAddress + ">"

and

msg.FromAddress = "My Name <info@domain.com>"

Additionally, this has nothing to do with your socket issue.

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 12, 2016, 10:34am

[quote=252567:@Beatrix Willius]Edwin: sorry, this is nonsense. There is no difference between

mail.Headers.AppendHeader "From", mailFromName + " <" + mailFromAddress + ">"

and

msg.FromAddress = "My Name <info@domain.com>"

Additionally, this has nothing to do with your socket issue.[/quote]

Yeah, I had a typo in my initial code. One I didn’t see at all. My bad. Thanks though

Edwin_van_den_Akker · March 12, 2016, 10:35am

I know. Like I mentioned… I should start a new conversation about that. There might be other users that deal with the same problem.