Python: how to change email sender's name?

Question

The emails which are sent automatically using smtplib via gmail, once are received. Receivers see the sender of the email is my email address. Is there any way to display the sender as a name that i can customize?

Answer 1

If someone comes around looking for a simpler if maybe not so comprehensive, way I managed to do this very simply on yagmail v0.10.212 with:

yagmail.SMTP({"[email protected]": "Alias"}, "pwd").send(mail, subject, body)

I had it setup to only need the user part of the email address, but I have to use the full address when adding the dict for the alias.

If you are using a .yagmail file then you don't need the password argument as well which improves security. Or have it on a keyring, which is what i do.

yagmail.SMTP({"[email protected]": "Alias"}).send(mail, subject, body)