Troubleshooting
My name, title, phone or company is blank in the signature
Last updated 2 August 2026
MailTail signatures use placeholders like your name, job title, phone number and company. When a signature applies, MailTail fills those in from your Microsoft 365 user profile, the same details your IT team manages in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD).
So if a field comes out blank, it's almost always because that field is empty on the profile, not because the signature is wrong.
What maps to what
Each signature field comes from a field on your Microsoft 365 profile:
- Name comes from your display name
- Job title comes from your job title
- Company comes from your company name
- Department comes from your department
- Mobile comes from your mobile phone
- Phone comes from your business phone
- Office comes from your office location
How to fix a blank field
The field needs to be filled in on the Microsoft 365 profile. An administrator can do this:
- Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin centre.
- Go to Users, then Active users, and select the person.
- Open Manage contact information (or Edit on the relevant section).
- Fill in the missing detail, such as job title, company or phone, and save.
Directory changes take a little while to propagate through Microsoft's systems. After updating a profile, wait a while, then open a new email to see the updated signature. Existing drafts won't change.
"I edited the signature HTML and now a field is blank"
If you're editing signature HTML directly, a placeholder only renders when it's written exactly as MailTail expects and the underlying profile field has a value. If you removed or altered a placeholder, that field won't fill in. Re-add the placeholder from the editor rather than typing it by hand.
Still blank after filling the profile?
Email support@mailtail.io. We can see which values are being read from the profile for a given user, so we can tell you quickly whether the detail is missing at the source or something else is going on.
Still stuck? Email support@mailtail.io with your Outlook version and we'll take a look.