Fixed #9214: EmailMessage now respects the From header instead of blindly using from_email. Thanks, Tai Lee.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@9842 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

django/core/mail.py

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ class EmailMessage(object):
                 else:
                     msg.attach(self._create_attachment(*attachment))
         msg['Subject'] = self.subject
-        msg['From'] = self.from_email
+        msg['From'] = self.extra_headers.pop('From', self.from_email)
         msg['To'] = ', '.join(self.to)
 
         # Email header names are case-insensitive (RFC 2045), so we have to

tests/regressiontests/mail/tests.py

@@ -88,4 +88,11 @@ BadHeaderError: Header values can't contain newlines (got u'Subject\nInjection T
 >>> settings.ADMINS = old_admins
 >>> settings.MANAGERS = old_managers
 
+# Make sure we can manually set the From header (#9214)
+
+>>> email = EmailMessage('Subject', 'Content', 'bounce@example.com', ['to@example.com'], headers={'From': 'from@example.com'}) 
+>>> message = email.message() 
+>>> message['From']
+'from@example.com'
+
 """