diff --git a/frontend/src/admin/UploadLinks.tsx b/frontend/src/admin/UploadLinks.tsx
index 30ecd5d..06efb82 100644
--- a/frontend/src/admin/UploadLinks.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/admin/UploadLinks.tsx
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ const { Paragraph, Text } = Typography;
 interface UploadLink {
   id: number;
   label: string;
+  contact_email: string | null;
   revoked_at: string | null;
   submission_count: number;
   max_submissions: number | null;
@@ -36,11 +37,16 @@ const DEFAULT_CAP = '25';
 export default function UploadLinks() {
   const [links, setLinks] = useState<UploadLink[]>([]);
   const [label, setLabel] = useState('');
+  const [email, setEmail] = useState('');
   const [cap, setCap] = useState(DEFAULT_CAP);
   const [unlimited, setUnlimited] = useState(false);
   // Held only in component state and shown once. A refresh loses it, which is
   // the honest behaviour: the server genuinely cannot produce it again.
   const [issued, setIssued] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  // Whether the link that is currently on screen was actually emailed. Separate
+  // from `issued` so the one-time display of the token keeps working exactly as
+  // it did; this only adds a note beside it.
+  const [mailed, setMailed] = useState<boolean | null>(null);
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [creating, setCreating] = useState(false);
 
@@ -57,6 +63,7 @@ export default function UploadLinks() {
   async function create() {
     setCreating(true);
     setError(null);
+    setMailed(null);
 
     const res = await fetch('/api/admin/upload-links', {
       method: 'POST',
@@ -66,6 +73,7 @@ export default function UploadLinks() {
       // that are not this screen.
       body: JSON.stringify({
         label,
+        email,
         maxSubmissions: unlimited ? null : Number(cap)
       })
     });
@@ -80,7 +88,9 @@ export default function UploadLinks() {
 
     const created = await res.json();
     setIssued(created.url);
+    setMailed(created.mail.sent);
     setLabel('');
+    setEmail('');
     setCap(DEFAULT_CAP);
     setUnlimited(false);
     await load();
@@ -106,6 +116,13 @@ export default function UploadLinks() {
           onChange={(e) => setLabel(e.target.value)}
           style={{ width: 260 }}
         />
+        <Input
+          aria-label="Contributor email"
+          placeholder="Where should the link be sent?"
+          value={email}
+          onChange={(e) => setEmail(e.target.value)}
+          style={{ width: 260 }}
+        />
         <Input
           placeholder="Max uses"
           aria-label="Maximum uses"
@@ -117,13 +134,27 @@ export default function UploadLinks() {
         <Checkbox checked={unlimited} onChange={(e) => setUnlimited(e.target.checked)}>
           No limit
         </Checkbox>
-        <Button type="primary" onClick={create} loading={creating} disabled={label.trim() === ''}>
+        <Button
+          type="primary"
+          onClick={create}
+          loading={creating}
+          disabled={label.trim() === '' || email.trim() === ''}
+        >
           Create link
         </Button>
       </Space>
 
       {error && <Alert type="error" message={error} showIcon />}
 
+      {issued && mailed === false && (
+        <Alert
+          type="warning"
+          showIcon
+          message="The link was not emailed"
+          description="Copy it below and send it yourself. This is normal where no mail is configured, and in QA, where delivery is restricted to a fixed list of addresses."
+        />
+      )}
+
       {issued && (
         <Alert
           type="success"
@@ -151,6 +182,7 @@ export default function UploadLinks() {
         pagination={false}
         columns={[
           { title: 'Label', dataIndex: 'label' },
+          { title: 'Sent to', dataIndex: 'contact_email' },
           {
             title: 'Used',
             render: (_, row) =>
diff --git a/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-draft-queue.spec.ts b/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-draft-queue.spec.ts
index 5fe3720..6cf6c67 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-draft-queue.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-draft-queue.spec.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ let token: string;
 test.beforeAll(async ({ playwright }) => {
   const api = await createAdminContext(playwright);
   const res = await api.post('/api/admin/upload-links', {
-    data: { label: `Review queue spec ${RUN}` }
+    data: { label: `Review queue spec ${RUN}`, email: `draft-queue-${RUN}@example.com` }
   });
   expect(res.status(), 'creating the upload link').toBe(201);
   token = (await res.json()).token;
diff --git a/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-upload-links.spec.ts b/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-upload-links.spec.ts
index 3317821..e80b8d3 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-upload-links.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/e2e/admin-upload-links.spec.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ test.describe('Managing upload links', () => {
     await page.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Upload links' }).click();
 
     await page.getByLabel('Link label').fill(label);
+    await page.getByLabel('Contributor email').fill(`${uniqueSuffix()}@example.com`);
     await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Create link' }).click();
 
     // Shown exactly once. The server keeps only a digest, so there is no
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ test.describe('Managing upload links', () => {
     await admin.goto();
     await page.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Upload links' }).click();
     await page.getByLabel('Link label').fill(label);
+    await page.getByLabel('Contributor email').fill(`${uniqueSuffix()}@example.com`);
     await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Create link' }).click();
 
     const row = page.getByRole('row', { name: new RegExp(label) });
@@ -61,6 +63,7 @@ test.describe('Managing upload links', () => {
     await admin.goto();
     await page.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Upload links' }).click();
     await page.getByLabel('Link label').fill(label);
+    await page.getByLabel('Contributor email').fill(`${uniqueSuffix()}@example.com`);
     await page.getByText('No limit').click();
     await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Create link' }).click();
 
@@ -69,4 +72,14 @@ test.describe('Managing upload links', () => {
     // A bare count rather than "0 of N".
     await expect(row.getByText('0 of', { exact: false })).toHaveCount(0);
   });
+
+  // The address is the point of the change: a link nobody can be sent is the
+  // thing this replaced.
+  test('will not create a link without an address', async ({ page, admin }) => {
+    await admin.goto();
+    await page.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Upload links' }).click();
+    await page.getByLabel('Link label').fill(`Nameless ${uniqueSuffix()}`);
+
+    await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Create link' })).toBeDisabled();
+  });
 });
diff --git a/frontend/tests/e2e/intake-submit.spec.ts b/frontend/tests/e2e/intake-submit.spec.ts
index 507131f..9ab45a4 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/e2e/intake-submit.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/e2e/intake-submit.spec.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ test.beforeAll(async ({ playwright }) => {
   const api = await createAdminContext(playwright);
 
   const res = await api.post('/api/admin/upload-links', {
-    data: { label: `Intake spec ${RUN}` }
+    data: { label: `Intake spec ${RUN}`, email: `intake-${RUN}@example.com` }
   });
   expect(res.status(), 'creating the upload link').toBe(201);
   token = (await res.json()).token;