Trim email address from header of PHP Mailer - php

Question

I am using PHPMailer to send email to my clients. But I am not satisfied with the output of the
I want to remove <michael#gmail.com> at the end of my name but not sure how to do it.
My current script:
$mail->SetFrom("michael#gmail.com",'Michael Chu');
$mail->XMailer = 'Microsoft Mailer';
$mail->AddAddress($email);
$mail->Subject = "TEST Email";
$mail->Body = "<p>TEST Email<p>";

Answer 1

The relevant parts in the PHPMailer code is in the Pre Send routine, which assembles the mail (and which is obviously called internally always before send):
public function preSend() {
...
try {
$this->error_count = 0; // Reset errors
$this->mailHeader = '';
...
// Create body before headers in case body makes changes to headers (e.g. altering transfer encoding)
$this->MIMEHeader = '';
$this->MIMEBody = $this->createBody();
// createBody may have added some headers, so retain them
$tempheaders = $this->MIMEHeader;
$this->MIMEHeader = $this->createHeader();
$this->MIMEHeader .= $tempheaders;
...
return true;
This will be called always. Now: when we look at the createHeader-function we see this:
public function createHeader()
{
$result = '';
...
$result .= $this->addrAppend('From', [[trim($this->From), $this->FromName]]);
...
return $result;
}
So: Create Header always adds the From Address part, but it relies on addrAppend to format it (passing 'From' and an array containing one address-array [email, name])
public function addrAppend($type, $addr)
{
$addresses = [];
foreach ($addr as $address) {
$addresses[] = $this->addrFormat($address);
}
return $type . ': ' . implode(', ', $addresses) . static::$LE;
}
The address-array is passed on:
public function addrFormat($addr)
{
if (empty($addr[1])) { // No name provided
return $this->secureHeader($addr[0]);
}
return $this->encodeHeader($this->secureHeader($addr[1]), 'phrase') .
' <' .
$this->secureHeader($addr[0])
. '>';
}
and formatted with the email... Nothing you can do about it.
So with phpmailer you can't do it. But you can write your own subclass.
Probably something along those lines
<?php
//Import PHPMailer classes into the global namespace
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;
require '../vendor/autoload.php';
/**
* Use PHPMailer as a base class and extend it
*/
class myPHPMailer extends PHPMailer
{
public function addrFormat($addr)
{
if (empty($addr[1])) { // No name provided
return $this->secureHeader($addr[0]);
}
else {
return $this->secureHeader($addr[1]);
}
}
}