[Plugin: Contact Form 7] CF7 says mail sent, but no mail ever arrives

I am having this same problem and it seems to be related to sending to an address in the WordPress system.

eg: if I set the send to email to be the WP admin email, I never get the email. If I set the send to email to be a different one (not associated to a WP User) I get the email.

Is there a way to enable sending to emails of WordPress Users?

Thanks.

Apologies, this is now working for me. But for some reason the mail took several hours to arrive.

Hi Please Help

I am having the same problem. I set up the uploader option and find that although it says SENT I never get the email.

I am using the latest version of contact form 7

Hi

So I did a little reading and found this…

https://contactform7.com/blog/2009/11/24/file-uploading-and-attachment/
“The location of the temporary folder depends upon your settings in WordPress. Open the Settings > Miscellaneous (Settings > Media if you use WordPress 3.0 or higher) menu, and check the setting for Store uploads in this folder field. The default is wp-content/uploads. Normally, Contact Form 7 creates a wpcf7_uploads folder in this location and uses it as the temporary folder for any uploaded files”

I Checked to see if the “wpcf7_uploads” folder was created and it was. Inside the “wpcf7_uploads” folder I found a .Htaccess file with “Deny from all”.

I uploaded a file and sent the message using the CF7 on my website but found the attached file doesn’t show up in the temp folder “wpcf7_uploads”

Any Ideas?

Thanks

I’m having this same problem–and I’m not offering file uploading as part of the contact form.

I’ve tested with two different forms and with multiple email addresses but nothing seems to work.

Any ideas or advice?

Thanks!
Seth

I’m having the same issue with two sites and they does not include the upload field! One of the sites has a Contact Form that has been previously working for months! I’m in kind of an urgent situation as well where I need another iteration of the contact form to be working for an event tomorrow. I’ve been testing it all day too, so it’s not just being delayed at this point

Can everyone please check that their contact forms are working and let me know?

I’m not sure if there is a central server that the emails go through, but perhaps something central is currently down.

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I actually figured out what was wrong. It had to do with the fact that I’m using Gmail to run the email for the domain WP is installed on, and so you can’t use the standard php mail() function to send emails via Contact Form 7 or ANY other contact form program.

Here’s the solution:

1. Install the wp-smtp-mail plugin onto your WP site.

2. Follow the directions on https://www.callum-macdonald.com/code/wp-mail-smtp/ to configure the plugin properly (I used the Gmail/Google Apps settings contained on this page to properly configure the plugin for my domain)

3. Send yourself a test email using the plugin. When things are setup properly, the email actually sends and it (almost) instantaneously appears in your inbox. From there CF7 and other contact functions should work flawlessly.

Wow, thanks sethfam. That was the issue.

What’s strange is that Contact Form 7 used to work flawlessly to my Google Apps account without the other plugin. It makes me wonder if I’ve missed any business from it!

I got the same problem too.

I installed the wp-smtp_mail and i can send a test mail. But just not work for contact form 7!

according to the WP-smtp-mail FAQ, it was due to:

No email from plugins?

If you’re using plugins to send email, these plugins will ignore the SMTP settings if they call PHP’s mail() function directly. If you see the function mail() and not wp_mail() in the plugin’s source, that’s the problem. You should be able to simply add wp_ in front of the existing mail command and it will probably work! (Insert lawyer-speak no warranty blurb here!)

Can any body tell me which folder and which file should I edit? i cannot handle it. Thank you.

Weiyunet, I didn’t have to edit the plugin, as the instructions state. It worked for me right away. In fact, it even sent all of the backlogged entries in the contact form, some dating as far back as a month ago.

I’m using google apps to manage my domain, but I can’t seem to get the Callum instructions to work. I set the smtp and everything, but which email address should I be using here? I have my domain account, and that is forwarded to my main gmail account. If I use my domain account, what would that look like – I mean, is it [email protected] instead of [email protected]?

Sorry if that’s all a bit confused, I’ve been working on this site all day and my brain is fried. ??

I’ve tried it six ways from Sunday; using the domain address, using my other gmail address, with POP enabled, etc. Nothing works. Getting error message:

[“ErrorInfo”]=>
string(43) “SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.”

Hahahahah Success!!! @ nheasley make sure you select – under “Authentication” Yes: Use SMTP authentication.

you can use [email protected] below are the steps

Gmail / Google Apps

To send email via Gmail or Google Apps, use these settings:

Mailer: SMTP
SMTP Host: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port: 465
Encryption: SSL
Authentication: Yes
Username: your full gmail address
Password: your mail password

Everything is set right, but I still get a “could not connect to SMTP host” error.

Maybe it’s something to do with my host. I’ll give GoDaddy a call later today.

My error has not yet fixed.
I could send test mail from WP-SMTP-Mail.
But just could not receive the contact form 7 and any other contact forms.

Some body suggested to put a line in a .css file in the root.
# PHP – MAIL
php_value mail.force_extra_parameters -your_email_address

But I dont know where and how.

Can any body help?