How do I change the "from" fieild of an email using matlab's "Sendmail"

I want to send an email from Matlab but be able to have the full name displayed as the sender. Currently sendmail will just show the name before the "@" as the sender.

Using the example code below, the "from" field is 'displayname' but I want to specify a real persons name with whitespace etc.

username = '[e-mail]'; %Your GMail email address
password = 'gmailpassword'; %Your GMail password

mail = '[e-mail]';

setpref('Internet','E_mail',mail);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.gmail.com');
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username',username);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password',password);
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.class', 'javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.port','465');

tic
sendmail('[e-mail]',['TESTING (', datestr(now,'dd-mmm-yy') ,')'], ...
  'adasdjaldjlajdjalsdkjald');
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Answer 1

[Annchen Knodt]

Use the following formatting:

mail = 'Display Name <[e-mail]>';
setpref('Internet','E_mail',mail);

I found that doing so puts "Display Name" as the sender's name and keeps "[e-mail]" as the sender's address / reply-to address.

[zapaiz]

It worked for me.

[Julian Hapke]

If you need special characters as well, you can put in

'"this, contains (stuff)" <[e-mail]>'