Set the Sender Display Name

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.FromName property, which is the display name of the sender. Changing this property updates the display-name portion of the MIME From header while preserving the email address. This example sets the address and display name separately, then reads back the combined From header.

Background: The display name is the friendly label a mail client shows instead of the raw address — for example, showing John Smith rather than john.smith@example.com. It is purely cosmetic and plays no part in message routing; the same address can be paired with any display name. When a display name contains special characters or non-ASCII text, it must be quoted or MIME-encoded in the header, which Chilkat handles for you.

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#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkEmail email;

    //  Demonstrates the Email.FromName property (the name of the sender).
    //  Setting it updates the display-name portion of the From header while
    //  preserving the email address.

    email = CkEmail_Create();

    CkEmail_putFromAddress(email,"john.smith@example.com");
    CkEmail_putFromName(email,"John Smith");

    printf("FromName = %s\n",CkEmail_fromName(email));
    printf("From = %s\n",CkEmail_ck_from(email));


    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }