diff --git a/htdocs/core/tpl/massactions_pre.tpl.php b/htdocs/core/tpl/massactions_pre.tpl.php
index c5c561c5ec5..497d7c6ea18 100644
--- a/htdocs/core/tpl/massactions_pre.tpl.php
+++ b/htdocs/core/tpl/massactions_pre.tpl.php
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ if ($massaction == 'presend') {
 	// Make substitution in email content
 	$substitutionarray = getCommonSubstitutionArray($langs, 0, null, $object);
 
-	$substitutionarray['__EMAIL__'] = $sendto;
+	$substitutionarray['__EMAIL__'] = empty($sendto) ? '__EMAIL__' : $sendto;
 	$substitutionarray['__CHECK_READ__'] = '<img src="'.DOL_MAIN_URL_ROOT.'/public/emailing/mailing-read.php?tag=undefined&securitykey='.dol_hash(getDolGlobalString('MAILING_EMAIL_UNSUBSCRIBE_KEY')."-undefined", 'md5').'" width="1" height="1" style="width:1px;height:1px" border="0"/>';
 	$substitutionarray['__PERSONALIZED__'] = ''; // deprecated
 	$substitutionarray['__CONTACTCIVNAME__'] = '';