Still No Joy With Configuration Errors

Can you post a screen shot of you FORM and MAIL settings?

Unfortunately this form doesn’t allow attachments. However, you can see them here: https://www.hablandodetecnologia.com/contact-form-7-problem/form-settings.jpg and https://www.hablandodetecnologia.com/contact-form-7-problem/mail-settings.jpg .

I have several WordPress sites and I use this same form in all of them. And in all cases I get configuration errors when I upgrade to version 4.4 or later. This didn’t happen before and the forms have worked fine for years.

I’m sorry that the forms are in Spanish but I work out of Puerto Rico and that is our native language.

Don’t worry about the language, it isn’t a problem. Maybe this can help:

If an email is being sent from your website domain, it should now have a FROM address from that domain (CF7 4.4+). This is because emails are being spoofed by spammers and are being sent from a different domain (e.g. I send you a message from my domain but claim to be sending it from paypal.com). Such messages are being routed into the Spam folder, and so best practice is now to include a FROM email address that is from the website domain. Look at the following setup:

== MAIL ==
From: [your-name] <[email protected]>
Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

What happens and why:

1. When you receive the message, it will have the sender’s name and be from the “wordpress” email address specified in FROM (Depending in your hosts, this may need to be a real email address (test to see if it processes), and it does need to be @your-domain.com).
2. Adding the Reply-To: [your-email] in ADDITIONAL HEADERS means that you can reply to the sender by hitting the Reply button in your email client.

Maybe the best idea would be a sample form and a sample mail tab the way they should actually be configured. I’m still confused.

Try this: https://snag.gy/MoN8y.jpg

Although note that I use [email protected] rather than [email protected] in the FROM field.

One configuration error went away, three remain.

I’ll just go back to the old version.

Can you post a screen shot of the where the errors are appearing in the MAIL tab?

I am having the same problem. No matter what, I get the red box configuration error. Any ideas?

Sure. I installed WP Rollback and went back to version 4.3.

This shouldn’t be rocket science. And if it’s going to be such a headache to get our forms right the developer should provide clear examples of what correct form should look like.

I gave up and went back to the old version of the plugin.

I hear that Ninja Forms and Gravity Forms are great solutions. I’ll have to look into them.

@jcallanan

Start a new topic and post a screenshot of both your FORM and the MAIL settings.