# Why is organizer@invite.cronofy.com the organizer of my event?

You'll see `organizer@invite.cronofy.com`, or an address like it, as the
organizer of an event when an application built on Cronofy sent you the
invite as a [Smart Invite](https://docs.cronofy.com/developers/calendar-and-availability/calendar-events/smart-invites/index.md).
It isn't a person's mailbox. When you accept or decline, your reply goes to
this address, and Cronofy passes it on to the application that invited you,
so it knows whether you're coming.

## Organizer addresses by data center
Each Cronofy [data center](https://docs.cronofy.com/developers/temporal-grid/data-centers/index.md)
has its own organizer address, used unless the application sets its own:

<table>
	<thead>
			<tr>
					<th>Data center</th>
					<th>Organizer address</th>
			</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
			<tr>
					<td>Australia</td>
					<td>`organizer@invite-au.cronofy.com`</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
					<td>Canada</td>
					<td>`organizer@invite-ca.cronofy.com`</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
					<td>Germany</td>
					<td>`organizer@invite-de.cronofy.com`</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
					<td>Singapore</td>
					<td>`organizer@invite-sg.cronofy.com`</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
					<td>United Kingdom</td>
					<td>`organizer@invite-uk.cronofy.com`</td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
					<td>United States</td>
					<td>`organizer@invite.cronofy.com`</td>
			</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
## Using your own organizer email
If you're building an application, your Smart Invites can show your own
organizer email instead, such as `invites@example.com`. Some calendar
services refuse invites where the sender doesn't match the organizer, and
your own address also makes the invites look like they come from you.

- Forward email sent to your organizer address to the organizer address for
your data center above, so replies still reach Cronofy. Without
forwarding, acceptances and declines aren't processed. See
[Configuring a custom organizer email for Google Workplace](https://docs.cronofy.com/developers/calendar-and-availability/calendar-events/smart-invites/google-workplace/index.md)
for an example.

- Pass the address as
[`organizer.email`](https://docs.cronofy.com/api-reference/calendar-control/smart-invites/create-smart-invite/index.md)
when creating the Smart Invite.

Use an address just for invites rather than a general "no reply" address.
See [Custom organizer email](https://docs.cronofy.com/developers/calendar-and-availability/calendar-events/smart-invites/index.md)
for more on how forwarding works.


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