Sometime in the past couple of years, the ability to specify the “From:
” name and address for emails sent through Manager has disappeared. This was important functionality that I’ve only recently noticed is now missing.
My SMTP username is a generic mailbox on my ISP’s mail server, along the lines of SMTPxxxx@domain.com
. When Manager sends emails it applies that SMTP username in the outgoing “From:
” header, along with the Manager “business” name as the plain-text sender. The recipient’s email client displays the sender as “My Manager Business Name <SMTPxxxx@domain.com>
”. That’s not what I want my customer to see. I want my customer to see the sender as “Accounting Dept <accounts@domain.com>
”.
In the past, like many other email clients, Manager had a separate concept for SMTP authentication credentials and sender name/address. There were, as I recall, fields to specify the sender’s plain-text name and the sender’s email address to be used in outgoing the “From:
” header, distinct from the username (or email address) and password used for SMTP authentication. No more.
The “Receive email replies at a different address
” option doesn’t solve this problem, because many email clients, including Outlook, display the “From:
” address rather than the “Reply-to:
” address. There’s no reason for my customers to see the SMTPxxxx
email address, particularly because incoming email to that account is not monitored.
Also, I don’t want my customers to see the name of my Manager “business” as the sender’s name. They’re not the same for me.
Any chance the former functionality can be restored?
Thanks.