Documentation Unclear and My Form Not Working

In the To field use the website address to receive the mail.
In the From field use a “noreply” email address using your website domain (this doesn’t need to be a real address, but it does need to be from your domain).
In the Subject field add some text, such as Re:
In the Additional Headers field add Reply-To: [your-email]

So, assuming you have an info mail address, try this in the first 4 fields:

To: [email protected]
From: [your-name] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [your-subject]
Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

Validation errors occurred. Please confirm the fields and submit it again.

This is not a configuration validation error. It’s just a validation error message shown on front end (yellow border).

https://contactform7.com/faq/after-submitting-the-form-i-get-an-error-message/

Will it work if I don’t use [email protected]? Say I use [email protected]?

It didn’t work on my site. The only other thing I can say is I have a Message Body area. Do you know if I have this form right or do I need to change these as well?

Thank you.

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Subject: Website Inquiry – [your-subject]

Message: [your-message]

from,
[your-name]
[your-email]

You should be fine with any email address in the TO field that suses your domain, so provided that it is a valid address [email protected] should be fine.

Your Message Body looks fine.

Thanks. It’s just not working. I appreciate your review though. I’m on the right track.

MAIL TAB

TO: [your-recipient]

From: [your-name] <[email protected]>

Subject: [your-subject]

Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

Message Body:

From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject: [your-subject]

Message Body:
[your-message]

This works. This if for using multiple recipients, so if you are only sending all emails from the contact form to one person (like the webmaster0 then change the [your-recipient] to just the email [email protected].

I have been trying to get you, Takayuki Miyoshi, the Contact Form 7 plugin author, to respond for many days, with many posts and none have been responded to by you.

I’ve had a problem with all my form pages for 3 weeks and have tried everything possible to try to fix them, but my form pages still don’t work – the form submission emails don’t go through. They all worked just fine for the past 3 years, and then 3 weeks ago they just stopped working while I was out of the country (hence no user error).

I spent 3-1/2 hours yesterday morning chatting with GoDaddy Tech Support and they were even logged into on my WordPress website to check my settings and form pages and they also tried everything possible to find/resolve the problem and could not get my form pages to work either and couldn’t understand why, and said my only resolution is to contact the Contact Form 7 plugin author to ask him/her. Yet I posted my issue 3 days ago on here and have yet to receive a response to it.

The tech told me to tell the author:
– that I tested php mail and that it does work on the server
– the sending and receiving email addresses are both on my domain name
– WordPress version and plugin are up to date
– no fields are left open and the subject is not blank
– when you hit submit that the wheel just spins
– that I disabled all other plugins and set my theme to twentyfifteen and that did not help

Under my Mail tab is this:

To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: RNC2016 Registration: Form
Message Body: Your Real Name: [text-RealName]
Badge Name L1: [text-BadgeName]
Badge Name L2: [text-BadgeNameLineTwoOpt]
Business / Field: [menu-Field]
Phone Number: [text-PhoneNumber]
Email Address: [text-Email]

My website is for my annual 5-day convention that is in 3 months, and nobody has been able to register for the past 3 weeks and I have been bombarded with emails asking why nothing happens when they fill out the registration form page and hit “Send”: https://romancenovelconvention.com/registration/

Please respond with a resolution to this WordPress/plugin issue.

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Use wp easy smtp for your problem and in the from field place:

[your-name] <[email protected]>

Check your host for smtp details.

My smtp is not the issue, I have tested it and phpmail works on my server.

My “From” field used to read that and it didn’t work. A straight email address works as well, so placing a name in place of an email address is not going to make my submission forms work or not work.

I noted in my post above that I gave the GoDaddy tech support access to my WP Admin and they checked everything and tried everything for HOURS and they couldn’t figure out what the problem was. They are the ones who told me to contact the plugin author and tell him:

– that I tested php mail and that it does work on the server
– the sending and receiving email addresses are both on my domain name
– WordPress version and plugin are up to date
– no fields are left open and the subject is not blank
– when you hit submit that the wheel just spins
– that I disabled all other plugins and set my theme to twentyfifteen and that did not help

The latest possible solution I found was this:
https://contactform7.com/faq/the-spinning-arrow-icon-shows-up-once-i-submit-a-form/

Which states “This is most probably due to a conflict between plugins/theme. Try deactivating all other plugins and switching to the default theme.”

However, I have done this and it doesn’t fix it.

And another link on that page:
https://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-email-issues/#pluginconflict

Which states: “Plugin and theme conflicts are unfortunately a fact of life with WordPress. As one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory, it’s reasonable to assume that CF7 is written so that it does not cause conflicts with other plugins and themes. However there are many plugins and themes that are not so well written and a host of CF7 email problems can be due to a JavaScript conflict with either your current WordPress theme or one of the other plugins you are using. A spinning arrow continuing to spin after submitting a CF7 form, is a common symptom of a JavaScript conflict. See JavaScript Conflict Problems to look at this issue in more detail. Contact the developer of the plugin or theme developer causing the conflict”

The JavaScript Conflict Problems page is:
https://kb.cf7skins.com/javascript-conflict-problems/

Which states: “The spinning arrow continuing to spin after submitting a CF7 form, is a common symptom of a JavaScript conflict. This typically indicates that Contact Form 7’s JavaScript is not completing due to a problem in some other JavaScript loaded on that page. If the JavaScript added by one other plugin has an error, the execution of the code will generally stop. Subsequent scripts loaded by any other plugin or the theme will not be run and the functionality breaks. Step by step approach to finding JavaScript conflicts. The most common and generally easiest way to find JavaScript Conflicts is to disable temporarily all JavaScript on your site, other than that from Contact Form 7, and then add back items until you get the problem again.

1. Switch temporarily to a WordPress default theme (Twenty Eleven etc.) and see if the problem goes away. If it does, you’ve most likely got a JavaScript conflict with your current WordPress theme. If switching to default theme doesn’t help it could be one of the plugins you are using that is causing the problem.

2. Disable (temporarily) all plugins other than Contact Form 7. If doing that solves the problem, you can then add back each item – one by one, until you find the possible cause of the problem.

Note: You may need to clear the browser cache between each one.”

However, I have done all of this and so did the GoDaddy tech and it doesn’t fix it, and my JavaScript is up to date, and the author of the CF7 plugin won’t respond to my posts.

CF7 version: 4.4
Wordpress version: 4.4.2

Having the same issue here, CF7 displays the message was sent successfully, but I am receiving neither the submission or the confirmation to the sender.

Interested to see what we all have in common as I am also experiencing this issue on a GoDaddy installation as JTwordpress is. Is everyone else using GoDaddy?

Intersting finding: On my local server, I reverted manually to CF7 version 4.3.1, tried a submission, which worked, then updated through the plugins screen to latest, tried a submission, and it still worked. Tried the same thing on the GoDaddy server but neither version worked.

My contact form is still broken. It’s a business website and looks so unprofessional. And I’m exhausted trying and not having it work.

Please keep this open until my issue is resolved.

So this is what I have:

What about CAPTCHA? DOES THAT IMPACT THIS UPDATE?

TO: [your-recipient]

From: [your-name] <[email protected]>

Subject: [your-subject]

Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

Message Body:

From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject: [your-subject]

Message Body:
[your-message]

Where can we the site?

https://www.RomanceNovelConvention.com

But here are the form pages that don’t work:

https://romancenovelconvention.com/registration/
https://romancenovelconvention.com/room-requests/
https://romancenovelconvention.com/schedule/class-submission/
https://romancenovelconvention.com/schedule/panelists/
https://romancenovelconvention.com/attending/i-am-attending/
https://romancenovelconvention.com/attending/hope-to-attend/

You can read a lot more of my status on everything I’ve already tried, on this forum thread where someone else was trying to help me, and some others:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/emails-not-sending-50?replies=22#post-8104042

and earlier was:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/contact-form-7s-documentation-unclear-and-my-form-not-working?replies=13#post-8109836