From Property

This property specifies the display name of email original sender.

Data Type: String

Remarks

This property is not required to send email. Use this property only if you want your email address to be displayed with a name instead of an email address. Default value is sender's email address.

[Visual Basic] The following example demonstrates how to load certificate to encrypt email with EASendMail SMTP Component. To get the full samples of EASendMail, please refer to Samples section.

[VB6, VBA - Set From Name]
Const ConnectNormal = 0
Const ConnectSSLAuto = 1
Const ConnectSTARTTLS = 2
Const ConnectDirectSSL = 3
Const ConnectTryTLS = 4

Private Sub SendEmail()
    Dim oSmtp As EASendMailObjLib.Mail
    Set oSmtp = New EASendMailObjLib.Mail
    oSmtp.LicenseCode = "TryIt"

    ' Your SMTP server address
    oSmtp.ServerAddr = "smtp.emailarchitect.net"

    ' User and password for ESMTP authentication
    oSmtp.UserName = "test@emailarchitect.net"
    oSmtp.Password = "test"

    ' ConnectTryTLS means if server supports SSL/TLS connection, SSL/TLS is used automatically
    oSmtp.ConnectType = ConnectTryTLS

    ' If your server uses 587 port 
    ' oSmtp.ServerPort = 587

    ' If your server uses 465 port with SSL/TLS 
    ' oSmtp.ConnectType = ConnectSSLAuto 
    ' oSmtp.ServerPort = 465

    ' If your server uses 25/587 port with SSL/TLS 
    ' oSmtp.ConnectType = ConnectSSLAuto 
    ' oSmtp.ServerPort = 587

    oSmtp.From = "Test User"
    oSmtp.FromAddr = "test@emailarchitect.net"
    oSmtp.AddRecipient "Support Team", "support@emailarchitect.net", 0

    oSmtp.Subject = "Test"
    oSmtp.BodyText = "Hello, this is a test...."

    If oSmtp.SendMail() = 0 Then
        MsgBox "Message delivered!"
    Else
        MsgBox oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription()
    End If

End Sub

See Also

FromAddr Property