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SSRS 2008 - I want emailed subscriptions to come from Alias

  • March 3, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    #217475

    I'd like the reports being emailed through a subscription to show the sender as our company alias, not the actual email address (the Display Name).

    i.e. the report comes from notice@company.com (in the rsreportserver.config file, the <From> is set to notice@company.com)

    I'd like the report to indicate coming from "Company". However, changing the <From> to anything other than in the format abc@host.xyz results in failure of the email to be sent.

    When sending email through database mail, the received emails show as coming from "Company [notice@company.com]" by setting the Display Name to "Company" for each account. This is the end result of what I want to accomplish when the subscriptions are being emailed through SSRS.

    Is it possible to do this? If so, how?

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

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  • March 3, 2010 at 10:53 pm

    #1128269

    <beat head on wall>.....

    I spent over an hour on the web, trying out different things before posting this question. Then, after posting, I tried one other thing and it worked.....

    Set the Sender Address to "Company <notice@company.com>" to get it to work this way.

    Wayne
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
    Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

    If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!
    Links:
    For better assistance in answering your questions
    Performance Problems
    Common date/time routines
    Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

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