From and Subject Config Errors?

  • Resolved orpheus_emerges

    (@orpheus_emerges)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    C7 Version 4.4.2:

    Apologies: I don’t understand the documentation and I have 2 Config errors on the “Mail” tab:

    “To” has no errors and I have [email protected] email address entered.

    “From” gives errors no matter what I seem to put in there.
    The instructions and example short codes given are

    “In the following fields, you can use these mail-tags:
    [your-name][your-email][your-subject][your-message]”

    In “From” I have tried [your-name][your-email] which returns error:
    “This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site.”

    I then tried [email* your-email] which returns error:
    “This field has syntax errors.”

    (also, the “Subject” field seems to give an error even when empty?)

    I am working with the default fields as supplied by my original C7 install about three years ago.

    These errors don’t make sense to “me” because I presumed that “To” was the field for my <[email protected]> address and that “From” was the user/sender’s email address.

    Please help me get off on the right foot…after many years with no “contacts”.
    Barry

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • Try this in MAIL:

    From: [your-name] <[email protected]>
Additional Headers: Reply-To [your-email]
Message Body:
From: [your-name] [your-email]

    Also, make your subject field required in the FORM:

    [text* your-subject]

    EDITED

    Thread Starter orpheus_emerges

    (@orpheus_emerges)

    barnez, thanks for your reply.

    I added your “required” to the Subject field: I hadn’t thought of that.

    I also read at https://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-configuration-validator/ that to dodge spam filters, it might be better to use the same [[email protected]] email address of my site in both “To” and “From”.

    So, in the process of debugging, I added “Required” to the Subject field, and using my site’s admin email address for both “To” and “From” fields eliminates both errors from the new C7 Configurator, and also results in constantly (apparently) successful emails via the C7 Comment Form.

    Thanks
    Barry

    Great to hear you’re back up and running!

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