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PaulTrimor
Qrew Cadet
8 years ago

How to set the FROM clause of an Email Notification to a given user?

I am trying to configure an email notification so that it appears to be coming from an email address of one of our users.  The issue with that when I go under "Advanced Options", the dropdown prese...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
Can you make that user have access to the app so that it becomes a valid choice?  Or you do not want to pay a license for that email address.  I'm pretty sure that the FROM has to be from a user so that Quick Base knows that you are not generating spam emails from a fake email address.
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
Did you set the Notification to trigger for only single record changes?

Assuming so, then how about adding a formula user field to the table with a formula

ToUser("john.smith@mycompany.com")

That field will then be a choice for the FROM.