Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by an

Same error message. I just updated Contact Form 7 and this may be a versioning problem. I am using different Contact Form 7 instances and simpler ones with single recipients work, but the multi-selection get your error message. I have verified the alias addresses are forwarding just fine. (See code below.)

## Simple ##
Form:

<p>Your Name (required)
    [text* your-name] </p>

<p>Your Email (required)
    [email* your-email] </p>

<p>Subject
    [text your-subject] </p>

<p>Your Message
    [textarea your-message] </p>

<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

Mail:

[email protected]
[your-name] <[your-email]>
[your-subject]

## With multiselection ##
Form:

<p>Your Name (required)
    [text* your-name] </p>

<p>Your Email (required)
    [email* your-email] </p>

<p>Subject
    [text your-subject] </p>

<p>Earliest release date: (optional):
[date date-251]
<p>Discontinue publishing after (required):
[date* date-348]

Submit to:
[select your-recipient multiple
"[email protected]"
"[email protected]"
"[email protected]"
"[email protected]"]

<p>Your Message
    [textarea your-message] </p>

<p>Attachment (optional):
    [file file-645]</p>

<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

Mail:

[your-recipient]
[your-name] <[your-email]>
[your-subject]

I am not including a link to my website by intention. Thank you for the reminder, however.

I should have mentioned that the form worked before the version update.

I just decided to download this plugin especially for sending to different email addresses from checkboxes selected. The pipe function for an array was not working. It looks like the latest release from yesterday introduced a bug. But according to a post there was a simple fix and now it is sending multiple emails from the checkboxes and the message body is able to get the _raw_ value from the checkboxes.

The quick fix is to edit wp-contact-7/includes/classes.php

Around line 599 in the classes.php file look for this line of code: $submitted = trim( $submitted ); and comment it out like this:
//$submitted = trim( $submitted );

With this fix I was finally able to have the pipe function working properly. Give it a try.

It looks like this bug was introduced in an intermediate version and has been corrected in the latest version. The fix list indicated that a changed that had been made cause php to process arrays incorrectly. I had a multiple-select list for users to choose recipients. I am pretty much sure that was the problem. It is working fine now. (Thanks to CF7 author for the fast turnaround!)

It still doesnt work for me, I still get the message since I’ve update wordpress to 3.6 and updates the last version of contact form 7.

“Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method.”

I cannot find the line suggested by Cybian in the classes.php file so cannot comment it out. Are there any other suggestions to fix this?

For what it is worth, I did not implement Cybian’s fix.

I finally just found out an ‘work-around’ by:
1. Using the ‘WP SMTP’ plugin
2. Using my gmail account as an SMTP server
3. and let the filled in forms send to the same address as my gmail account I use for SMTP.

If I don’t use the same e-mailaddress, it doesn’t send your forms anywhere.

Its not what I really want cause the e-mail address I want it to be send to is not used now but its an work around I am happy with to use for now. Hopefully it doesnt break the whole plugin again after a new update of wordpress or contact form 7…

Though the plugin successfully sends millions of emails every day, there are a host of issues that can delay or stop emails on both the sending and receiving ends of a typical email. It depends entirely on your local configuration.

You will need to investigate this issue for your particular local configuration. See Contact Form 7 Email Issues

I was having the same failed to send message and I found out what happened.
Evidently the 3.6 upgrade took out the mailing information from my contact form.
If you go to your individual Contact Form admin and you look below the form area where is says Mail – message body,to:, From:, Subject:.
All of those fields were blank.
Once I entered in the information the mail form worked.
And if you don’t remember of how those fields need to be formatted you can just create a new Untitled form and cut and paste from what was created there.

hope this helps.

hello… i tried all the solutions but still am not able to get out of the problem…. so will any one help me out????
Thanks in advance….

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