MailMessage setting the Senders Name

Question

Is it possible to set the sender name on a MailMessage object? I tried setting it from MailAddress, but the DisplayName property seems to be read only.

I tried "My Name " as the sender and don't seem to work either.

Answer 1

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); mail.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "Bob Jones" ); 

Answer 2

You do not need to use the MailAddress class.

You can let the runtime parse your string.

var message = new MailMessage(     "My Name [email protected]",      "Recipient One [email protected],Recipient Two [email protected]",     "Subject",     "Body");