I am sending emails using the phpMailer in couch. However the emails I receive show that the email is Root User istead of showing a name instead. Any leads why it is so and how to change that?

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[KK]

Difficult to say without seeing exactly how you are sending the emails.
Please post the part of your code that does that.

OK KK Thanks. The following is how I am sending the email:
On form success:

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<cms:if k_success >
    <cms:set email_from='Nano Wines and Cards' />   
    <cms:set email_bcc='adimpressions@live.com' />   
    <cms:set email_subject='Order on Nano Website' />
    <cms:set email_debug='0' />
    <cms:set order_date="<cms:date format='%b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S' locale='english'/>" />

    <cms:set random_numbers="
       <cms:php>
          function random_str($type = 'alphanum', $length = 8)
  {
      switch($type)
      {
          case 'basic'    : return mt_rand();
              break;
          case 'alpha'    :
          case 'alphanum' :
          case 'num'      :
          case 'nozero'   :
                  $seedings             = array();
                  $seedings['alpha']    = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
                  $seedings['alphanum'] = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
                  $seedings['num']      = '0123456789';
                  $seedings['nozero']   = '123456789';

                  $pool = $seedings[$type];

                  $str = '';
                  for ($i=0; $i < $length; $i++)
                  {
                      $str .= substr($pool, mt_rand(0, strlen($pool) -1), 1);
                  }
                  return $str;
              break;
          case 'unique'   :
          case 'md5'      :
                      return md5(uniqid(mt_rand()));
              break;
      }
  }

echo random_str('alphanum', 5);
       </cms:php> 

    " />

    <cms:set invoice_id="<cms:concat <cms:show frm_name /> random_numbers />" /> 
                    
    <cms:embed 'sales_email.html' />    

    <cms:set_flash name='order_complete_msg' value="<cms:embed 'sales_success_msg.html' />"/>
                    
    <cms:pp_empty_cart />
    <cms:redirect k_page_link />
</cms:if>

This is the send_email.html file

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<cms:send_mail html='1' from=email_from to=frm_email bcc=email_bcc subject=email_subject debug=email_debug>
  Thank you for your order, <cms:show frm_name /> <cms:show frm_last_name />.
        Your order has been confirmed and is being processed.
</cms:send_mail>

[KK]

It would appear, prima facie, that the following statement is not correct -

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<cms:set email_from='Nano Wines and Cards' />

It needs to be set as a valid email address. Please try doing that.

Hi KK,
Thank you very much for pointing me to the right direction. It worked. However is there no way I can use a name instead of the email address?

I searched through the forum and found this which worked:

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from="Nano Wines and Cards <nanowines@gmail.com>"

But I want to know if doing this will work, so that I can be able to grab the email from the input field dynamically.

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from="Nano Wines and Cards <<cms:show email_from />>"