Email recipients with names – why not?

The notification default email carrier uses wp_mail() to send its emails, so according to the wp_mail() function reference, it would be possible to send to recipients of the format ‘User Name <[email protected]>’.

Looking at parse_value() in the default email recipient, I see the following:

		$parsed_emails = [];
		$emails        = is_array( $value ) ? $value : explode( ',', $value );

		foreach ( $emails as $email ) {
			$parsed_emails[] = sanitize_email( $email );
		}

So it would seem that recipients of the format ‘User Name <[email protected]>’ will be stripped down to ‘[email protected]’ by sanitize_email().

I am considering creating a recipient that supports the ‘User Name <[email protected]>’ format. But before I do, I am curious as to if you have any particular reason to not support the ‘User Name <[email protected]>’ format, or if you maybe encountered any stumbling blocks that made it impractical.

Thank you.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by hanscz.