Configuration Error Message

@barbra Wolfe – please supply a copy of what you are currently using in the Mail section of the CF7 interface.

@others – please create your own separate post showing what you are using in the Mail section of the CF7 interface.

Hi everyone (but @barbra Wolfe), the volunteers that are trying to help are struggling to do so because there are so many people in each thread. It’s cool if you’re helping out the original poster, but not so cool if you’re posting to say an equivalent of “me too”.

You can still have your say, we just ask that you do so in your own separate thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/contact-form-7#postform

To clarify, this is only a request for people to discuss their own issues on their own threads.

..the suggestion noaneo says works. But of course [email protected] is meant as an example, fill in your own email address that is connected with the wordpress website.
But maybe best wait for another update from CF7 to fix this error?

@buzztone #andrew, please tell us what good it does to publish codes that are standards, if they are not recognised as such by the “validator”. It’s a loop hole, again, the mails are setup correctly but the validator doesn’t read them so.
Are we gonna open separate post for a problem that is exactly the same for everyone? Not.
This thread should be closed and wait until the problem is fixed at the source.

Are we gonna open separate post for a problem that is exactly the same for everyone? Not.

If you’ve having the same issue then you can follow the solutions in this thread. If you’re not satisfied with the level of support that volunteers like @buzztone and @noaneo are providing (sorry if I’ve missed others out) then you can open up a new thread.

Even if you are convinced the issue is the same someone else’s issue, posting in someone else’s thread, to discuss your issue, clouds their issue.

@vaarkamp :

This is the solution given on the website of the author
https://contactform7.com/2016/01/15/red-border-error-issue-on-wordpress-441/

you put your mail and not [email protected]

I tested on my site and it works, I get well the mail.

or to try
https://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-email-issues/#your-email

It is imperative that your email contains your domain name, not another, not gmail address.
It must for example be [email protected]

If you haven’t, then create one with your site host

@noaneo: That works UNTIL you have the contact form on a subdomain. The mail address ([email protected]) is connected to the main, not sub domain and thus won’t be validated by contact form 7! If I enter a fictive subdomain E-Mail like [email protected] THIS E-Mail address is validated by contact form 7 (stranely enough) in the backend, but of course the contact form won’t send any mail as this mail doesn’t exist and even can’t be created on my provider’s backend. So.. With all my main domains the new form works, but not with my sub domain!

@crismoreno666 :

I do not know the subdomains, I’ve ever used, I thought that it could create emails via his Web host, for each subdomain.
I haven’t seen that Contact Forms 7 work for WordPress Multisite

the author, I think no other solution offers
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/red-border-error-issue-on-wordpress-441?replies=1

Which email address should you use in the From field? You should use an address belonging to the same domain as the site. The best practice is using wordpress@{your-site-domain} and preparing the address on your host.

You might be wondering why you had been able to send mail even with invalid mail setup. Why did this issue suddenly start with WordPress 4.4.1? We’re not certain, but the important thing is that mail header fields must have valid values regardless of WordPress versions. This is a good time to review your mail setup.

Hello. before the introduction of the Configuration Validator my modules work very well. Now they report errors – just in the parts copied from the default module – and while changing they are not corrected. No longer work. the Configuration Validator is a big problem: it was all good without it.

everybody, just forget about the validator, as long as the mail works just don’t listen to its error messages…

Hi,

what errors do you have? What field?

Please, allow us to disable the validator or at least it’s messages.

I’m using “[your-name] <[your-email]>” and it works fine even if validator says it’s wrong (getting the green “message sent”) plus it allows me to work with mails comfortably. If I had to use single mail sender it would be pretty uncomfortable to process answers in bigger counts…

Excepting this little red fail the plugin works so smooth, keep up good work!

everything is said there
https://contactform7.com/2016/01/15/red-border-error-issue-on-WordPress-441/

I have tested on several sites, and o error

Try to put

[your-name] <[email protected]>

or

[your-name] <[email protected]>