Continuing the discussion from Mail does not go out after recent update … I experienced this issue yesterday before the fixes were released. I was coincidentally migrating my notification email to a new domain and setting it up while the emails were broken. It led to a very confusing couple of hour…

[afbeelding] Saen: Old From: Saen via Collectives <noreply@minecraftengineering.org> New From: Saen <noreply@saen.dev> The relevant change is: UX: improve sender name in emails (#36974) committed 11:41AM - 06 Jan 26 UTC (UTC) …

[afbeelding] Saen: Where it used to say User Via [Site] it now just says User as the email sender name. The via is likely added by the MUA to show the Sender. Can you dig out and show the From, Reply-To, Subject, and Sender headers from old and new emails? [afbeelding] Saen: there was p…

There seems to be no difference in these headers between the old and new emails, except for the fact that the old From headers include the via statement. (For context my site name is Collectives, my old domain was minecraftengineering.org and the new domain is saen.dev). Everything was switched ov…

[afbeelding] supermathie: UX: improve sender name in emails (#36974) · discourse/discourse@826d346 · GitHub I don’t particularly care about this myself, but how is including less information about why you’re getting email an improvement? Another topic about this change (or this family of cha…

[afbeelding] pfaffman: I don’t particularly care about this myself, but how is including less information about why you’re getting email an improvement? I can’t answer authoritatively, but I suspect it’s due to the site’s name already being present in the Subject line.

[afbeelding] supermathie: but I suspect it’s due to the site’s name already being present in the Subject line. Ah. That would make sense. So the Basic Principle is reducing redundancy here.

Email From: headers lost their "via SITENAME" text

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supermathie (Michael Brown) 19 januari 2026 om 17:55 4

The relevant change is:

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Change Send As in Email Notifications Feature	24	5714	6 januari 2019
Avoiding the forum name in the email sender? Support	6	811	7 maart 2019
Forum topic creator name is used instead of notifier in sent emails with the Notify feature Bug	4	702	26 mei 2021
How do I change the email "FROM" address? Support	8	858	5 september 2020
Poster's name in From email instead of admin/orignal topic starter Support	4	641	6 juli 2021

Email From: headers lost their "via SITENAME" text

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