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  1. POIs there a way to include an email address "display name" in the smtp element of a Web.config file?
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    <blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1394354/storing-smtp-from-email-friendly-display-name-in-web-config">Storing Smtp from email friendly display name in Web.Config</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I'm working on an <code>EmailSender</code>, and I'm grabbing the email address from my Web.config file. I'd like to also grab a "display name" for that email, from the same section if possible, but I'm not seeing an obvious way to do this.</p> <p>In my Web.config file, I have included a default "from email address", like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;configuration&gt; &lt;system.net&gt; &lt;mailSettings&gt; &lt;smtp from="myaddress@mydomain.com"&gt;&lt;!-- no displayName attribute :( --&gt; &lt;network ... /&gt; &lt;/smtp&gt; &lt;/mailSettings&gt; &lt;/system.net&gt; &lt;/configuration&gt; </code></pre> <p>In my <code>EmailSender</code>, I have something like this:</p> <pre><code> var smtpSection = ...; var message = new MailMessage(); message.From = new MailAddress(_settings.From, senderDisplayName); </code></pre> <p><strong>Is there a recommended way to store <code>senderDisplayName</code> in a web.config file?</strong></p> <ul> <li><p>Is there some way to include it in the <code>from</code> attribute? For example:</p> <pre><code>&lt;smtp from="Automatic Mailer &amp;lt;myaddress@mydomain.com&amp;gt;"&gt; </code></pre></li> <li>Or does it need to be a custom element in <code>appSettings</code>?</li> <li>Or is there some other way?</li> </ul>
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