I learn visually, or by example. Having used vB for about a year now, I think I'm doing pretty good to only have asked three questions during that entire period. I've figured out almost everything I needed in that time. I appreciate that you're trying to help, but I'm not able to follow the logic that VB uses.

The phrase manager can also have variables. Okay, I guess I can go along with that. I did edit the sendmessage MESSAGE BODY that way.

The phrase "contactus" is now this:
and I changed it away from the default of:
I figured that out on my own just fine. I've edited many phrases in the past.

An unrelated default phrase is this:
I see that this code
generates the forum name in that phrase, to be used in the send-to-friend e-mail feature.

I can search for that term, and it brings up a lot of e-mail body and e-mail subject phrases. None of those are pertinent. Neither the subject nor the body contain the from information that is found in the header of an e-mail, and displayed in e-mail software.

I'm not wanting to alter the subject or body anymore.

I changed this too:
to my own custom message. Again, did that on my own, long before posting here on the from-name problem.

I don't see that this is a phrase-referenced or phrase-held issue. If it is, I'm not seeing it, and I've looked dozens of times now. That's why I turned to the PHP code itself, and sought help here.

If this were held in the phrases, I would expect to see this somewhere:
But I don't see that or anything close to it.

Actually, I apologise, first for taking it out on you, and myself just realising that you were looking at the actual header "from" field, I initially thought that you wanted to change the subject itself. The code you are looking for is line 216 of /includes/class_mail.php.

Alright, after digging around some more on my own, I found it. It was, indeed, in the PHP code, not a phrase.

Open up class_mail.php and search for this line:
change it to
That did it.

Thanks for trying to help, but ya'll were just way off base with this one. If nothing else, your insistence that I look in phrases at least gave me the idea to use phrase variable names as a way to search through the PHP code, using Super Text Search, and then look for the offending bits of code.

--------------- Added [DATE]1234684026[/DATE] at [TIME]1234684026[/TIME] ---------------

To DISMOUNTED: Yeah -- there you go -- that was it. In a round-about way you did help me. I found it about 5 minutes ago, just before you wrote up your post.