# Friendly "From Address"

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-from-address/176747>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 5, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-from-address/176747 "2009-10-05T19:27:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-from-address/176747/1 "2009-10-05T19:27:59Z")

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What is the right way to set the “friendly” part of the from address  
in an email?

This works:

```
  from "removed_email_address@domain.invalid"

```

But this does not… (No error message, the email just never  
arrives):

```
  from "My Site <removed_email_address@domain.invalid>"
```

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**Author:** ![ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-from-address/176747/2 "2009-10-05T20:56:23Z")

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This isn’t super helpful, but I saw someone with a similar problem –  
but it was throwing an error a couple of weeks ago.

Memory is there was a change in ActionMailer or TMail or something  
like that. I’d check the commit logs in those areas and see if you see  
it. Or maybe it was a lighthouse bug report…

Good luck!

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**Author:** ![ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@ian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ian)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/friendly-from-address/176747/3 "2009-10-05T21:05:45Z")

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On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 10:26 -0700, Ian wrote:

> ```
> from "My Site <removed_email_address@domain.invalid>"
> 
> ```

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try this in configuration…

‘“My Site” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)’

Craig

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