sender_name should be used when preparing mail

I've determined this is the cause for a bug with groups.drupal.org, #1379362: Emails coming from Anonymous

It appears not a problem on the 4.x branch. It would be good to get this on 2.x since it is the only one with a recommended release.

Attached is a patch which bypasses the whole token system since there is not a user account, or the user account should not be used.

Better status and subscribe.

#2 is Now deployed on g.d.o and working there. Setting to rtbc since it fixes the bug I care about, but it could be this isn't the "right" way to fix it.

I applied the patch, and it resolved sender the issue.

Thank you.

What is blocking this patch?

Tagging, as well.

I am experiencing the same problem, but in a slightly different use-case, and #2 didn't work because it didn't address the root cause.

I am using Mailhandler (like the OP) to post nodes, and notifications get sent out when nodes are posted. Mailhandler 6.x-1.x worked fine, but I started getting this error with Mailhandler 6.x-2.x. Here's why:

Mailhandler 6.x-1.x would 'forge' the global $user on import to be the message sender. Then when notifications_event() was called, it would insert $user->uid into the event.

Mailhandler 6.x-2.x no longer forges the global $user, so notifications events get created with the anonymous user account.

The solution is to patch notifications_content to explicitly add a uid to the event before calling notifications_event().

I think this is a more correct patch than #2, but I have no idea if it will solve everyone else's problems...

None of the patches above worked for me.

Patch #7 worked for me. Thanks for the fix. I agree this seems like the correct place to patch.

I'm not actively working on this issue.