diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
+## 0.5.0
+
+- [PR #26](https://bitbucket.org/echo_rm/hailgun/pull-requests/26/) Support named emails
+
 ## 0.4.3
 
-Fix build for lts-15.1 and time-1.9.3
+- Fix build for lts-15.1 and time-1.9.3
 
 ## 0.4.2
 
-Adds `Mail.Hailgun.Internal` module, which exposes private APIs for constructing a `HailgunMessage`.
+- Adds `Mail.Hailgun.Internal` module, which exposes private APIs for constructing a `HailgunMessage`.
diff --git a/Mail/Hailgun/Internal/Data.hs b/Mail/Hailgun/Internal/Data.hs
--- a/Mail/Hailgun/Internal/Data.hs
+++ b/Mail/Hailgun/Internal/Data.hs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     , MessageSubject
     , MessageContent(..)
     , UnverifiedEmailAddress
+    , VerifiedEmailAddress
     , MessageRecipients(..)
     , emptyMessageRecipients
     , HailgunErrorMessage
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@
 #endif
 
 type UnverifiedEmailAddress = B.ByteString -- ^ Represents an email address that is not yet verified.
+type VerifiedEmailAddress = B.ByteString -- ^ Represents an email address that has been verified.
 type MessageSubject = T.Text -- ^ Represents a message subject.
 
 -- | A generic error message that is returned by the Hailgun library.
@@ -82,10 +84,10 @@
 data HailgunMessage = HailgunMessage
    { messageSubject     :: MessageSubject
    , messageContent     :: MessageContent
-   , messageFrom        :: TEV.EmailAddress
-   , messageTo          :: [TEV.EmailAddress]
-   , messageCC          :: [TEV.EmailAddress]
-   , messageBCC         :: [TEV.EmailAddress]
+   , messageFrom        :: VerifiedEmailAddress
+   , messageTo          :: [VerifiedEmailAddress]
+   , messageCC          :: [VerifiedEmailAddress]
+   , messageBCC         :: [VerifiedEmailAddress]
    , messageAttachments :: [SpecificAttachment]
    }
    deriving (Show)
diff --git a/Mail/Hailgun/Message.hs b/Mail/Hailgun/Message.hs
--- a/Mail/Hailgun/Message.hs
+++ b/Mail/Hailgun/Message.hs
@@ -3,12 +3,16 @@
     ) where
 
 import           Control.Applicative
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8            as BC
-import           Data.List                        (find)
+import           Data.Either                        (either)
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8              as BC
+import qualified Data.Text                          as T
+import           Data.Text.Encoding                 (encodeUtf8, decodeUtf8)
+import           Data.List                          (find)
 import           Mail.Hailgun.Attachment.Internal
 import           Mail.Hailgun.AttachmentsSearch
 import           Mail.Hailgun.Internal.Data
 import           Text.Email.Validate
+import           Data.Attoparsec.Text
 
 -- | A method to construct a HailgunMessage. You require a subject, content, From address and people
 -- to send the email to and it will give you back a valid Hailgun email message. Or it will error
@@ -21,10 +25,10 @@
    -> [Attachment] -- ^ The attachments that you want to attach to the email; standard or inline.
    -> Either HailgunErrorMessage HailgunMessage -- ^ Either an error while trying to create a valid message or a valid message.
 hailgunMessage subject content sender recipients simpleAttachments = do
-   from  <- validate sender
-   to    <- mapM validate (recipientsTo recipients)
-   cc    <- mapM validate (recipientsCC recipients)
-   bcc   <- mapM validate (recipientsBCC recipients)
+   from  <- validateRecipient sender
+   to    <- mapM validateRecipient (recipientsTo recipients)
+   cc    <- mapM validateRecipient (recipientsCC recipients)
+   bcc   <- mapM validateRecipient (recipientsBCC recipients)
    attachments <- attachmentsInferredFromMessage content cleanAttachments
    return HailgunMessage
       { messageSubject = subject
@@ -37,6 +41,17 @@
       }
    where
       cleanAttachments = fmap cleanAttachmentFilePath simpleAttachments
+
+extractEmail :: T.Text -> Either String T.Text
+extractEmail = parseOnly
+   $ many (satisfy (/= '<')) *> char '<' *> (T.pack <$> many (satisfy (/= '>')) <* char '>')
+   <|> T.pack <$> many anyChar
+
+validateEmail :: T.Text -> Either String EmailAddress
+validateEmail e = validate . encodeUtf8 =<< extractEmail e
+
+validateRecipient :: UnverifiedEmailAddress -> Either String VerifiedEmailAddress
+validateRecipient ue = ue <$ validateEmail (decodeUtf8 ue)
 
 attachmentsInferredFromMessage :: MessageContent -> [Attachment] -> Either String [SpecificAttachment]
 attachmentsInferredFromMessage mContent simpleAttachments =
diff --git a/Mail/Hailgun/SendEmail.hs b/Mail/Hailgun/SendEmail.hs
--- a/Mail/Hailgun/SendEmail.hs
+++ b/Mail/Hailgun/SendEmail.hs
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 toSimpleEmailParts :: HailgunMessage -> [(BC.ByteString, BC.ByteString)]
 toSimpleEmailParts message =
-   [ (BC.pack "from", toByteString . messageFrom $ message)
+   [ (BC.pack "from", messageFrom message)
    , (BC.pack "subject", T.encodeUtf8 $ messageSubject message)
    ] ++ to
    ++ cc
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
       fromContent t@(TextOnly _) = [ (BC.pack "text", textContent t) ]
       fromContent th@(TextAndHTML {}) = (BC.pack "html", htmlContent th) : fromContent (TextOnly . textContent $ th)
 
-      convertEmails :: BC.ByteString -> [EmailAddress] -> [(BC.ByteString, BC.ByteString)]
-      convertEmails prefix = fmap ((,) prefix . toByteString)
+      convertEmails :: BC.ByteString -> [VerifiedEmailAddress] -> [(BC.ByteString, BC.ByteString)]
+      convertEmails prefix = fmap ((,) prefix)
 
 -- TODO replace with MailgunSendResponse
 -- | The response to an email being accepted by the Mailgun API.
diff --git a/hailgun.cabal b/hailgun.cabal
--- a/hailgun.cabal
+++ b/hailgun.cabal
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 -- PVP summary:      +-+------- breaking API changes
 --                   | | +----- non-breaking API additions
 --                   | | | +--- code changes with no API change
-version:             0.4.3
+version:             0.5.0
 
 -- A short (one-line) description of the package.
 synopsis:            Mailgun REST api interface for Haskell.
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@
 license-file:        LICENSE
 
 -- The package author(s).
-author:              Robert Massaioli
+author:              Robert Massaioli <robertmassaioli@gmail.com>
 
 -- An email address to which users can send suggestions, bug reports, and 
 -- patches.
-maintainer:          robertmassaioli@gmail.com
+maintainer:          Konstantine Rybnikov <k-bx@k-bx.com>
 
 -- A copyright notice.
 copyright:           (c) 2014-2018 Robert Massaioli
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@
                         , tagsoup            >= 0.13 && < 0.15
                         , text               == 1.2.*
                         , transformers       >= 0.3 && < 0.6
+                        , filepath           >= 1 && < 2
+                        , attoparsec         >= 0.13 && < 0.14
 
    if flag(newtime)
       Build-Depends:    time >= 1.5