Add option to disable displaying the sender app's name

.env.example

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 MESSAGE_FORMAT=yaml
 USE_MARKDOWN=False
 ALLOW_UNICODE=True
+DISPLAY_APP_NAME=True
 
 MATRIX_SERVER=https://matrix.example.org
 MATRIX_SSLVERIFY=True

Dockerfile

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ ENV LOGIN_STORE_PATH=/config
 ENV MESSAGE_FORMAT=yaml
 ENV USE_MARKDOWN=False
 ENV ALLOW_UNICODE=True
+ENV DISPLAY_APP_NAME=True
 
 ENV MATRIX_SERVER=https://matrix.example.org
 ENV MATRIX_SSLVERIFY=True

README.md

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ The gateway tries to join all of the specified rooms in the `.env` file on start
 - Message formatting via `MESSAGE_FORMAT`: `raw` | `json` | `yaml` (default)
 - Markdown formatting turned on or off via `USE_MARKDOWN`: `True` | `False` (default)
 - ASCII (e.g., `\u1234`) or Unicode characters (e.g., `ű`) in JSON or YAML content via `ALLOW_UNICODE`: `True` (default) | `False`
+- Include the sender app name in messages via `DISPLAY_APP_NAME`: `True` (default) | `False`
 
 ### Matrix connection parameters
 

src/E2EEClient.py

@@ -125,9 +125,13 @@ async def send_message(
         if sync:
             await self.client.sync(timeout=3000, full_state=True)
 
+        msg_prefix = ""
+        if os.environ['DISPLAY_APP_NAME'] == 'True':
+            msg_prefix = f"**{sender}** says:  \n"
+
         content = {
             'msgtype': 'm.text',
-            'body': f"**{sender}** says:  \n{message}",
+            'body': f"{msg_prefix}{message}",
         }
         if os.environ['USE_MARKDOWN'] == 'True':
             # Markdown formatting removes YAML newlines if not padded with spaces,
@@ -136,7 +140,7 @@ async def send_message(
 
             content['format'] = 'org.matrix.custom.html'
             content['formatted_body'] = markdown(
-                f"**{sender}** says:  \n{message}", extensions=['extra'])
+                f"{msg_prefix}{message}", extensions=['extra'])
 
         await self.client.room_send(
             room_id=room,