Overwrite sender's mail id which is set in application.conf

[suribabu39]

Hi, I have set required configurations in application.conf as below:

play.mailer {
  host=smtp.gmail.com
  port=465
  ssl=true
  tls=false
  user="from@email.com"
  password = "****"
  debug=true
  mock=false
}

While sending some emails I need to override default sender's mail id(which was set in application.conf), it is still sending email from "from@email.com" rather than sending from "diff_from@email.com".

mailerClient().send(Email("Simple email", "diff_from@email.com",Seq("to@email.com")))

Is there any way to overwrite the default sender email id?

[ggrossetie]

As far as I remember, the email address configured in the application.conf will be used for the authentication. If you want to use another account you will need to manually instantiate another SMTPMailer: https://github.com/playframework/play-mailer#multiple-smtpmailer-instances

Does it make sense ?

[Christophenkoa]

HI , then there is no way to dynamically used several sender's email id? How should i do if i want to create a blog and receive all feedbacks of my visitors through my email(in this case each visitor is a sender). I am a beginner in play. Thank for your help and sorry for my english

[ggrossetie]

Hi @Christophenkoa
I don't think you should "impersonate" each visitor by sending an email from their email address. I believe, it's a bad practice to send an email from an arbitrary email address.
Instead you should send an email with your email address (or a bot account email address) and add the email address of your visitor in the body/title of your email.

The user/from address is really for authentication purpose with the SMTP server to make sure that when you receive an email from from@email.com it was really sent by from@email.com.

At least that's my understanding 😉

[Christophenkoa]

Thanks a lot!
My mentor told me the same thing.
It makes sense