diff --git a/Classes/Controller/MailController.php b/Classes/Controller/MailController.php
index 1a84815d8c279cd796f245dfe48857701824c828..6402fcda41610725ac897cd3adf0e832b7175fee 100644
--- a/Classes/Controller/MailController.php
+++ b/Classes/Controller/MailController.php
@@ -155,10 +155,6 @@ class MailController extends ActionController {
 			$colspace = 12;
 		}
 
-		$users = BackendService::getFrontendUsers();
-		array_unshift($users, NULL);
-
-		$this->view->assign('users', $users);
 		$this->view->assign('colspace', $colspace);
 		$this->view->assign('languageTemplates', $templates);
 		$this->view->assign('languageLabels', BackendService::getLanguageLabels($languages));
diff --git a/Classes/Service/BackendService.php b/Classes/Service/BackendService.php
index b6ad4ebcee03b070aa0e2a4f5565262ef533ffd5..36bfe04b336c4e0d9cc18fca783fbfb29de920c6 100644
--- a/Classes/Service/BackendService.php
+++ b/Classes/Service/BackendService.php
@@ -303,25 +303,6 @@ class BackendService {
 		return $template;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * get an array of all frontend users
-	 *
-	 * @return array
-	 * @throws \InvalidArgumentException
-	 */
-	public static function getFrontendUsers() {
-		$objectManager = GeneralUtility::makeInstance(ObjectManager::class);
-		/** @var FrontendUserRepository $frontendUserRepository */
-		$frontendUserRepository = $objectManager->get(FrontendUserRepository::class);
-
-		/** @var Typo3QuerySettings $querySettings */
-		$querySettings = $objectManager->get(Typo3QuerySettings::class);
-		$querySettings->setRespectStoragePage(FALSE);
-		$querySettings->setRespectSysLanguage(FALSE);
-		$frontendUserRepository->setDefaultQuerySettings($querySettings);
-		return $frontendUserRepository->findAll()->toArray();
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Generate a csv string from the queues, respecting the given filters
 	 *
diff --git a/Resources/Private/Templates/Mail/Index.html b/Resources/Private/Templates/Mail/Index.html
index 5717da400e75d2c9d2c6b254205cb2b5792d36df..53958313236907701c4d7f7d5c1c21ad87237c59 100644
--- a/Resources/Private/Templates/Mail/Index.html
+++ b/Resources/Private/Templates/Mail/Index.html
@@ -95,10 +95,6 @@
 							</f:for>
 
 							<div class="col-md-12">
-								<div class="row form-group">
-									<label for="parameters[templates][{key}][fromUser]" class="">{f:translate(key:'backend.fromUser')}</label>
-									<f:form.select class="form-control" property="fromUser" optionValueField="uid" optionLabelField="username" options="{users}" name="parameters[templates][{key}][fromUser]"/>
-								</div>
 								<div class="row form-group">
 									<label for="parameters[templates][{key}][fromName]" class="">{f:translate(key:'backend.fromName')}</label>
 									<f:form.textfield type="text" class="form-control" value="{languageTemplate.fromName}" name="parameters[templates][{key}][fromName]" />