Last modified: 2014-10-29 01:14:15 UTC
As mentioned at bug 57234 comment 1 (and somewhat related to bug 60119), currently MassMessage uses the username "MediaWiki message delivery". MassMessage could be switched to use the message sender's account name instead. This could be an unconditional switch or a per-message switch.
See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98469/ for an existing patch for this, though it may need to be reworked somewhat.
Change 98469 had a related patch set uploaded by MZMcBride: Add the ability to send messages using the user's account https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/98469
Change 98469 abandoned by Legoktm: Add the ability to send messages using the user's account Reason: December me never tested this apparently, because I can tell it doesn't work just by looking at it. Also, I don't like this implementation. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/98469