It's not possible to set an email recipient's name when using a Notification sent via the Mail channel

[JackWH]

This affects Laravel 5.6.

When sending email, it's best practice to set the recipient name alongside their email address — e.g. John Smith <john.smith@example.com>. This can help reduce the likelihood of emails going to spam.

When using a Illuminate\Mail\Mailable class, you can use the to() function to set the name and address:

/**
 * Set the recipients of the message.
 *
 * @param  object|array|string  $address
 * @param  string|null  $name
 * @return $this
 */
public function to($address, $name = null)
{
    return $this->setAddress($address, $name, 'to');
}

Likewise, you can also do this with the Mail facade:

Mail::to([['name' => 'John Smith', 'email'=> 'john.smith@example.com']])->send(
    (new MyMailable($content))
);

However, the Laravel docs suggest using an Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage class to issue notifications. This class doesn't have any kind of to() method defined on it.

It will automatically detect the recipient's email when you call it against a User class, but will simply send to john.smith@example.com as opposed to John Smith <john.smith@example.com>.

The latter option would increase deliverability and reduce the likelihood of emails disappearing into spam.

[shrft]

I can make changes and send pull request if nobody working on it yet.

[JackWH]

@shrft Thanks, I haven't done anything on this yet myself so a pull request would be much appreciated.

[shrft]

hi. it seems this is already fixed a while ago.
#24606

[laurencei]

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