Specifications

Crestron e-control Mail SW-MAIL
96 •• Appendices Installation & Reference Guide — Doc. 5798
SetFromName
Applies to
e-Mailer signal blocks
Description
Sets the sender’s real name. This name is included in quotes in the “From:” header
of the e-Mail message, in front of the sender’s e-Mail address. It is not considered
part of the address and may be set to anything — or excluded entirely.
Direction
system-to-server
Type
Serial (string)
Value
New sender name. May contain spaces and punctuation.
Expected Reply
None
Comments
This signal is not required to send e-mail.
The sender name may be any string. It normally does not have to match the name
on record for the sender’s e-Mail account and can vary from message to message.
It may be set to null (blank) by sending a null string.
The sender name is reset to the default by the NewMail signal, as well as the
SendNow signal which does an implicit NewMail. The default sender name is
specified in the e-Mailer signal block definition. The default may be null (blank).
The initial value of the default (for a newly defined e-mailer signal block) is:
Control System
Note that SetFromName does not actually send any mail. Subsequent use of the
SendNow signal is required to actually send a message.
See Also The other “Set” signals (SetRcptName, SetAddr, SetSubj, and SetBody).