"From: address " in Horde webmail

[Granny]

When I send from webmail the recipient sees this as the sender:
username@domain.com

How do you get Horde webmail to have the sender format like this:
John Doe <username@domain.com>

so that the recipient's mail box will show incoming mail
from John Doe
not from username@domain.com

A small irritant, but it seemts Horde is able to do most (or more) things than other webmail products do. I am just not seeing where to enter the right words. I have entered name & domain info in a dozen ways on the Mail > Options > Personal Information page. Is there some other setting that I am missing ?

Thanks, Granny
:confused: currently a rather grumpy granny

[Granny]

I reviewed the headers (again) in both sent mail and recipients copies.

When using Horde and an outgoing message is saved in the sent folder, that copy does show the senders name along with the senders' address
ie: "my name" <sender@domain.com>

However the recipient gets only <sender@domain.com> and not the name portion.

I note that Squirrel Mail does correctly send the sender's "name" <address>

Is there some change that I need to make somewhere - php.ini or ??

[Granny]

So I submitted a "ticket" to HostMonster
HM reply was:
Dear Customer,
Unfortunately it does not seem to be possible in Horde for the main from email address. The reply-to address can be formatted to look this way, though.

Next, I browsed through the Horde website to better understand the file structures of the program.
I am guessing that the coding that pulls from the "personal information" file for sending out and for saving to local folder is in separate lines - one line for sending and another for saving to "sent" folder.
> The code line for saving to the local folder correctly saves the author name + author email address.
> The code line for sending out pulls only the author email address.

Anyone know where this bit of code might be in the Horde files?

Granny

[Granny]

Seems I must be the only one who has this "annoyance"

Jan Schneider at horde.org said in reply to my usenet inquiry:
" No, the same is message is sent and saved. "

So my guess about two separate areas of code is wrong. Jan did not offer any clues as to how to find / correct the problem.

Anyone else notice this behavior in Horde outgoing mail ?

[shadmego]

I have not. I appreciate your detailing what is going on though. I don't really use my webmail features as all my emails are checked via Thunderbird. I'm reading with interest though and wondering if there is a fix for this.

~regards,
Shadmego

[Granny]

The sites I do are for non-profit groups, so using site-based webmail is a good thing.

The display name seems like such a simple thing that we take for granted in email. Maybe someone more knowledgable than I can figure out a fix.

[shadmego]

It may have to be the root user of the box you are on. You can also install roundcube. It's an email program that many people here seem to like. I've downloaded it but have yet to install the program in my website.

You can also just tell your clients to use squirrelmail as you said that program correctly sends the "name" with the email address.

~regards,
Shadmego

[vr6trd]

I would also be very interested in knowing how to display Name <email@address.com> since I am now using Horde web mail.

Ty