Java mail sender's address displayed rather than his name

Question

I am trying to send mail to my friends through my Java Mail application. I am able to do it successfully however the receiver's column in the mailbox shows the complete email address rather than the name of the sender. I tried changing various parameters but still the mailbox would show the full e-mail address rather than the name of the sender.

using this method to send the message:

 public void send(String key){     String to=key;     String from="mygmailid";     String subject="wassp";     String text="Hello";     Properties props=new Properties();      props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");     props.put("mail.smtp.user", "myname");     props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", "465");     props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class","javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");     props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");     props.put("mail.smtp.port", "465");     Session mailSession=Session.getDefaultInstance(props);     Message simpleMessage=new MimeMessage(mailSession);      InternetAddress fromAddress=null;     InternetAddress toAddress=null;      try{         fromAddress=new InternetAddress(from);         toAddress=new InternetAddress(to);     }     catch(AddressException e){         e.printStackTrace();     }      try{         simpleMessage.setFrom(fromAddress);         simpleMessage.setRecipient(RecipientType.TO,toAddress);         simpleMessage.setSubject(subject);         simpleMessage.setText(text);          transport.connect("smtp.gmail.com",465, "[email protected]", "mygmailpassword");         transport.sendMessage(simpleMessage, simpleMessage.getAllRecipients());         transport.close();        }     catch(MessagingException e){         e.printStackTrace();     } } 

I am calling this method as:

public static void main(String[] args) {     MailSender mailer=new MailSender();     mailer.send("[email protected]"); } 

Answer 1

You can set a name in the InternetAddress using

new InternetAddress("[email protected]", "Your Name"); 

Answer 2

You should use the two string constructor of InternetAddress to pass in both the e-mail address and the person's name. The resulting e-mail will contain a string like Jarrod indicated.

InternetAddress fromAddress=new InternetAddress("[email protected]", "John Doe");