Allowing Users To Edit Destination Email Address in Reporting Services

When users subscribe to a report via email in Reporting Services the destination email address field defaults to their username and is read-only. If the SMTP server that you’re using won’t accept emails for plain usernames then you will have to allow users to enter their full email address when subscribing to a report.

To do this:

  1. Edit %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.3\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config.
  2. Locate <SendEmailToUserAlias>True</SendEmailToUserAlias> and change True to False.
  3. Save the file and restart the ReportServer service.

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