How to add sender name before sender address in python email script

Question

Here's my code

# Import smtplib to provide email functions
import smtplib
 
# Import the email modules
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 
# Define email addresses to use
addr_to   = '[email protected]'
addr_from = '[email protected]'
 
# Define SMTP email server details
smtp_server = 'smtp.aol.com'
smtp_user   = '[email protected]'
smtp_pass   = 'pass'
 
# Construct email
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['To'] = addr_to
msg['From'] = addr_from
msg['Subject'] = 'test test test!'
 
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "This is a test message.\nText and html."
html = """\

"""
 
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
 
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
 
# Send the message via an SMTP server
s = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server)
s.login(smtp_user,smtp_pass)
s.sendmail(addr_from, addr_to, msg.as_string())
s.quit()

I just want the email received to display the sender name before sender email address like this : sender_name

Answer 1

In the year 2020 and Python 3, you do things like this:

from email.utils import formataddr
from email.message import EmailMessage
import smtplib

msg = EmailMessage()
msg['From'] = formataddr(('Example Sender Name', '[email protected]'))
msg['To'] = formataddr(('Example Recipient Name', '[email protected]'))
msg.set_content('Lorem Ipsum')

with smtplib.SMTP('localhost') as s:
    s.send_message(msg)