Issue regarding Envelope Email Address address (When replying to email)

So pretty much I am using a Contact Forms and I need to override this field to make it use my visitor’s address instead.

My Postmail settings are:
TYPE: SMTP
Outgoingmail: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 587
Security: STARTTLS
Authentication: OUAuth2.0

Just to recap the API I created is with the same email address that is entered in as my Envelope Email Address.

Thank you kindly,

Note: Envelope Email Address has been removed from the v1.7 UI when the Gmail API is selected, because the Gmail API doesn’t use it.

when a user fills in a contact 7 form on my wordpress blog and puts in their email address when I receive the email and click on reply it is actually replying to the address that I setup as the “Envelop Email Address” with postman, its not replacing it with the sender email.

If you check the transcript, you will see that Postman actually does transmit the From field as defined by Contact Form 7. The issue is that to eliminate spoofing, Gmail replaces the From address you send with your own (i.e. the address of the account). Gmail’s not alone. Hotmail, Yahoo and now Mandrill all do this.

Gmail has a “Send Mail As” feature if you can demonstrate you own the From address. Of course, this is no help with CF7.

To solve your reply problem, simply add the Reply-To additional header in CF7

Reply-To: [visitor-name] <[visitor-email]>

Best practice is to think of the website as a user in the email ménage-à-trois. Jane@visitor fills out your form, info@mydomain sends it and john@mydomain receives it.

Hey Jason,

Thank you kindly sir for your prompt reply. I came across your other post explaining this just a few minutes ago :). It makes sense what you are mentioning 100%. I implemented the reply-to for my contact page and it works perfectly. I just need now figure out what I need to do with this one form at the bottom of the page –> https://rentthisproperty.ca/properties/a-beautiful-modern-townhome-in-barrhaven-2/ where to modify the code to resolve it as it looks like its using a different CF7 form but I only have one listed.

I will open up a support ticket with the theme creator. This plugin saved me big time, nor google or my hosting provider were able to resolve this problem with emails being filter as spam etc.

Consider it done in writing up an review for this plugin :).

Thank you

Hey Jason,

I revisiting this and looking at taking your suggestion in just creating another email address called [email protected] so it can be obvious to users to not reply to the email. However I dont want to create another business gmail account which will cost me money. Anyway to configure Postman to send the emails by [email protected]. I assume I will need to re setup the authentication of postman with the noreply email addy correct?

Thank you kindly,

From a usability and marketing perspective, it’s always better to send an email from an email address that a user can reply to.

But yes, just change the envelope-from address, throw in a new client ID and client secret from the new account, and away you go.

Hey Jason,

Thanks for the prompt reply sir.

Yes very good point, would you still consider using a email address that users Reply to even though all they are receiving is there username and password for my site?

I get the new client ID part but does the noreply Mail box need to be a real mailbox for it to work?

Because when I tried changing the envelope email addy, my emails were failing to send it, however I didn’t do the new client id part. Is that cause?

Thanks again

does the noreply Mail box need to be a real mailbox for it to work?

According to Google, yes.

my emails were failing to send it, however I didn’t do the new client id part. Is that cause?

Yes.

would you still consider using a email address that users Reply to even though all they are receiving is there username and password for my site?

You want your users to be able to reach you on any email you send them. If someone is using a fake email address to annoy someone via your site, they should be able to respond to you.

Thanks Jason for your reply and your input.

Took kind

My pleasure, sir! ??