# Sender email name

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-email-name/45658
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 14, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-email-name/45658 "2016-06-14T15:39:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![znq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/znq/32/57688_2.png) [@znq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/znq)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-email-name/45658/1 "2016-06-14T15:39:39Z")

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I’m running a hosted Discourse setup (hosted on [discourse.org](http://discourse.org)). I’ve set up all my email settings properly (SPF and DKIM) and I’ve received a test email from [test@mydomain.com](mailto:test@mydomain.com) successfully as configured in `notification email`. However I can’t figure out how to set the sender’s _real name_. Currently the email arrives with an ugly `test@mydomain.com` real name.

Is there a way I can change this?

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### Author: ![brunoedigital](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/brunoedigital/32/119692_2.png) [@brunoedigital](https://meta.discourse.org/u/brunoedigital)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-email-name/45658/3 "2016-06-15T14:38:53Z")

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Figured out how to change e-mails “From” name (not sure if that’s exactly what you were looking for):

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/2/c29a5ed53be65ac43e150b7bf6de683ac12f3e8c.png)

BTW, check Settings \> Emails. There are quite a few options there. You might find what you were looking for

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### Author: ![znq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/znq/32/57688_2.png) [@znq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/znq)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-email-name/45658/4 "2016-06-15T16:10:49Z")

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That’s exactly it. Great. Thank you 🙂

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### Author: ![mtan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@mtan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mtan)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-email-name/45658/5 "2018-11-11T18:03:23Z")

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Can this be set to anything?

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sender-email-name/45658/7 "2021-08-28T18:38:27Z")

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