Specify sender's name

At the moment Mime Mail doesn't specify the sender information but uses your sites default settings and Drupal uses only the e-mail address to set the sender in drupal_mail(). If the sender is empty Mime Mail will set it using the site's default name and e-mail address in mimemail_prepare().

drupal_mail() core default:

  $default_from = variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from'));

  // Bundle up the variables into a structured array for altering.
  $message = array(
    'id'       => $module .'_'. $key,
    'to'       => $to,
    'from'     => isset($from) ? $from : $default_from,
    'language' => $language,
    'params'   => $params,
    'subject'  => '',
    'body'     => array()
  );

  [...]

mimemail_prepare() default:

  if (is_null($sender)) { // use site default for sender
    $sender = array(
        'name' => variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal'),
        'mail' => variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from')),
    );
  }

  [...]

Changing version to HEAD.

I am attaching a patch against current HEAD.

No, this patch will allow you to specify the sender information on the module settings page.

It's not fixed until it's committed. Still needs some review.

Small fix to use Mime Mail setting for default sender if sender is null, like the original behavior.

+++ mimemail.inc	6 Sep 2010 15:42:52 -0000
@@ -51,8 +51,9 @@
-  // allow a mail to overwrite standard headers.
-  $headers = array_merge(array('Return-Path' => "<$from_email>", 'Errors-To' => $from, 'From' => $from, 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed'), $headers);

Note that this patch fixes a bug for this issue. The array_merge() here doesn't allow to overwrite the headers, since the later value overwrites the previous one. So after all we pass the $sender to mimemail_headers() for nothing, the default headers added by drupal_mail() will overwrite these.

In the attached patch (in the previous ones too) the parameters of array_merge() are reversed and mimemail_headers() tries to overwrite these headers only if the $from parameter is set.

Committed to HEAD.

Changing version.