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Spam Resource: DELIVTERMS: Friendly From
- May 5, 2022
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just shared a engaging write-up on Spam Resource:
DELIVTERMS: The weekly series here on Spam Resource that defines deliverability terminology. Today, I’m going to talk about the Friendly From.What is the friendly from? It’s not quite its own separate header, but it is a field in your from header. It is the text that goes next to your email address in the from header.If the from address header in my email looks like this:From: Al Iverson That means that the from address is aiversontestmail@wombatmail.com and the “friendly from” is “Al Iverson.”Some systems enclose the friendly from in quotes, like this:From: “Al Iverson, not a lawyer” This helps prevent formatting glitches in some cases, like if you include a comma in your friendly from. In that case, if you don’t put the whole thing in quotes, there’s a good chance recipients could end up with a very funky looking from address, depending on how their mail application or webmail…
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