Help with changing the email addy seen in output email

  • Hello,

    I am having a little issue with email output that I can’t figure out how to change.

    In your form maker, under “From”, you place a default code like this:
    [your-name] <[email protected]>

    the email addy there is my admin email. Because it sits next to the sender’s name, the email following it should be theirs, not mine. Or at least only the sender’s name without an email addy.

    Here is an image from my Outlook of what I mean:
    https://www.improve21.com.au/contactform7emailaddy.jpg

    In the Mail tab, I tried using these alternative options:
    [your-name] <[your-email]>
    and
    [your-name]
    But each of them delievered a syntax error message, so I really don’t know what to put there to make their email display, not mine.

    Hope you can help.

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

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    See Best Practice to Set Up Mail

    Thread Starter improve21

    (@improve21)

    Sorry, but none of those instructions makes any sense to me. I’ve already looked at that before and couldn’t understand it.
    Can you tell me what code to put in that spot please.

    @improve21

    You were right when placing [your-name] <[email protected]> in the FROM field.

    The FROM field needs to be populated with the name of the sender and an email address that reflects the domain where the email was sent from (in your case improve21.com.au). As the best practices link explains, this measure is intended to combat the increasing incidence of spoofing, whereby an email is sent from one domain but claims to be sent from another (e.g. paypal.com, your-bank.com). Having the correct domain in the FROM field negates this, conforms to current best practice and prevents emails sent from your contact form from being incorrectly routed into the spam folder of your email client.

    Does this allow you to reply directly to the person who submitted the form? Or if you hit reply, will it still have your email in the To: field since that’s what was populated in the From: field?

    UPDATE: This was able to resolve what I was looking for.
    https://contactform7.com/adding-cc-bcc-and-other-mail-headers/

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by courtrd. Reason: Resolved on my own
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