Dynamic sender loaded with ampscript from within email - possible?

Question

I am sending a dynamically populated email to people who sign up in a form. Based on country I want to send it with the country specific "From name" / "From email".

I need to do the logic from within the email. Is that possible?

Like this in the email:

if @countrycode == 'en-en' then
set @FromName = 'Business name'
set @FromEmail = '[email protected]'
(else ... = use default)

I have a Send Classification called "Dynamic Sender". There I point to the sender profile called "Dynamic_Sender" and there I have: From Name: %%FromName%% From email: %%FromEmail%%

Yet in the preview of my test email, I can't see the From Name and From Email are not populating.

Somewhere I saw that you need to add FromName and FromEmail as profile attribute, but surely that is only if you intend to populate from a data extension?

Ideas on how to populate the sender stuff from within the email?

Answer 1

This is personalization is done with Personalization String (field merges). You would either have to add them to the Profile Attributes or have a fields in the send data extensions that contain the Column Header From Name and From Email