Even if the FROM email address has to remain the same, being able to edit the FROM name that appears on a given email would be a big improvement for marketing purposes.

68 votes. Please start the design on this one!

Ditto!! Membership Activation emails and the like are sent out from our organization's president. She does not want to have to forward all follow-up inquiries to the membership manager.

Like the other posters, we have different people handling different functions in our system (membership, event registration, finances etc), each with their own roll based email. Having emails pertaining to those areas send from (and reply to) those roll based emails would both make management easier and prevent important messages from getting lost in manual redirection.

Send emails from organisation contact address, not the wildapricot address

I just wanted to add that I, too, would like to see an upgrade on this feature. Same as is done with Events, choosing email address, should be done here. Our membership chair should be the reply-to email address on the account. We haven't decided yet what email address to put as the main person but it would be nice if we could segregate the specific admin for certain auto-emails.

Constant Contact allows the email sender address to be changed to another domain (other than xx.wildapricot.org) - just for email blasts. Your system requires the whole domain be changed which is highly inconvenient. Thanks.

Walt, there is some confusion here and I'm sorry for this. "Feedback" button inside Wild Apricot is actually a window into Wishlist. So all your suggestion are searched in Wishlist forum and created in the forum.

I merged your comment suggestion into the one you have mentioned. I'm sorry again for the confusion, but thank you for sharing your suggestions again.

Apologies for this redundant post. It was submitted via Feedback, which I was told would go directly to the development group, but that wasn't the case.

Folks -

I posted this in the thread https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8936389-allow-admin-to-define-multiple-sender-emails-and-u but am

Savvy Apricot suggested that I also submit it here through Feedback.

What people are asking is for the From address on emails to be the actual sender (e-blast sender, event organizer, etc.) rather than always the Organization contact. This is really important for several reasons I won't repeat here, but read the thread.

You already have the actual sender as the Reply-to in most cases. It should be the From as well. This is what people expect when receiving an email.

Dmitriy said that the Reply-to can't be used as the From because the From has to match the SPF record.

Here's my simple two-part solution.

First part: If the Reply-to address (the actual sender) is from our WA-hosted domain, then it matches the SPF record. So in this case, also use it as the "From."

Second part: If not, keep the Organization contact as the From, but put the actual sender in the name of the From, like this:

From: "Jane Doe <eventleader@gmail.com> via:" <info@hosteddomain.org>

Then the From can be the hosted domain but it will be pretty clear to the recipient that it is really from Jane Doe.

And they won't be surprised when they reply and it goes directly to
""Jane Doe <eventleader@gmail.com>."

This should be really easy to implement.

What do you think?

Here's a two-part solution for this problem with very little implementation effort.

An Apricot explained to me that the From field of the email can't be the Reply-To because From needs to be from our domain in order to pass spam checks. If "From" is a gmail.com address but sent by our website, it will look like spam.

But it would be legal for WA to use the Reply-to as the From in the cases where the email address is from our own domain hosted at WA. For example, we have a contact login "newsletters@tyc.org" that is used to send our weekly e-blast. tyc.org is our domain, so it could be used as the actual "From" address.

In cases where the Reply-To is not from our domain, include the Reply-To address in the name of the "From" email address.

For example: Instead of

From: My Organization Name <orgcontact@myclub.org>

say

From: "Jane Doe <eventleader@gmail.com> via:" <orgcontact@myclub.org>

It will be pretty clear to the recipient that it is really from Jane Doe.

And they won't be surprised when they replay and it goes directly to "Jane Doe <eventleader@gmail.com>."

My apologies for another comment on this, and for the critical tone. But as I use WA and stumble over ways it presents our club poorly, I feel the need to reemphasize the need for a quick, simple partial fix on this issue.

We are already allowed to specify a Reply-to contact for many if not most emails. Why not just use that for "From" as well?

It is just plain wrong for WA to send event emails and e-blasts "From" the organization-wide From email address when the "Reply-to" is the event organizer or blast sender. These fields should be the same, as they are on almost every email on the Internet except those sent under WA.

How big a fix would this be? Isn't this something that can be slipped into the next release without waiting for larger email solutions?

If you don't want to change overall behavior, then give us a checkbox in Dashboard / Organization to opt for this.

We need to be able to customize who the email is "from". Members are able to purchase our service to send out email blasts, and we are unable to do this unless we can change who the email is from, so that it is "from" the member who purchased the blast. Other email programs allow this, and I would really appreciate this feature on Wild Apricot. Thank you.

Up to 46 votes on this feature! I'd really like to see this get onto the Roadmap soon - email is the primary way we communicate with our members and improvements can't come soon enough.

We are about to do our first dues renewal under WA and I am so not looking forward to having to forward each individual reply to the membership committee.

Even in cases where another email is allowed (e-blasts, event email), it's always the reply-to email (if I understand correctly). This is lame.

The way an organization presents itself to members is very important. By limiting our choice of from and reply-to addresses, WA is not letting us fulfill that function adequately.

Have you tried https://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Routing+of+system+emails ? You can copy all membership emails to email you set up there.

Create a membership admin email address to use in lieu / in addition to the organization email to respond directly to membership emails that are sent to membership and replied back to from members.

It is ridiculous that all email replies are sent to the default webmaster. He is overburdened with emails. Membership related emails should be sent to the membership Secretary.

I recently had a great conversation with one of our users regarding this request and it gave me a much deeper appreciation for why it's so important. Like everyone that's commented I'd love to see it in Wild Apricot, but we'll need to see more comments/votes to make that happen.

So if you want it - it's time to let us know!

Be able to define an arbitrary email address in "Organization Details...Email Settings... From Email..."

We use gmail as our only means of email delivery. We would like to define that email address (xxxx@gmail.com) as the "from" of any email being sent out by WA on our behalf.

Not working yet, unfortunately - for now just collecting comments. But it has a lot of votes (24 as of now), so it will be in our queue soon.
Vote more to speed it up!