# Email From: headers lost their "via SITENAME" text

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 16, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-from-headers-lost-their-via-sitename-text/393814 "2026-01-16T22:50:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-from-headers-lost-their-via-sitename-text/393814/2 "2026-01-19T15:40:11Z")

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> [@Saen](#):
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> 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?

> [@Saen](#):
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> there was previously a site setting named `from_email` which allowed for specifying this

There was not. There’s:

```plaintext
notification_email # env var: DISCOURSE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL
reply_by_email_address # env var: DISCOURSE_REPLY_BY_EMAIL_ADDRESS

```

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