• Resolved ldesherl

    (@ldesherl)


    I have had an issue with your contact form for some time. People’s efforts to get in touch with me go to Feedback on my site, and there is no option for me to easily reply to them. But their responses DO NOT reach my email inbox! THis makes my life harder as I would have to manually add their names to my contacts and then manually contact them from my inbox. And they send me links, which are NOT clickable from the Feedback feature. I cannot easily reply to these people.

    ***PLEASE HELP***

    https://alllivesaresacred.com

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  • It sounds like your hosting provider has disabled PHP’s mail() function, which Jetpack, like other contact form plugins, uses. It’s the same function that is used by WordPress to send you comment notifications, or notifications about new users registering on your site.

    This is a common safeguard employed by hosting providers when they suspect that another customer on the same server is sending spam emails directly from the server.

    Another alternative is that PHP’s mail() function is still active, but spammer activity from the server has already caused any email sent from it to be blacklisted. This would result in the emails being sent, but never received by any email address with basic anti-spam capabilities.

    You can check this by leaving a comment on your site and checking if you receive an email. Another alternative would be to use the Check Email plugin and sending yourself a test email to see if it works? You can download the plugin here:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/check-email/

    If you didn’t receive a test email, you could try using a plugin like this one to configure your WordPress site to use your email’s outgoing mail server instead of PHP’s mail() function:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/postman-smtp/

    Thread Starter ldesherl

    (@ldesherl)

    Thank you. I plan to look into this when I get a chance.

    Let us know how you go ??

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