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Example – Working on one site under Tab “Mail” and for “Additional Headers:

Reply-To: [your-email]
Telephone: [tel-123]

Now going to another site, it did not work and got the red warning of an error

Example – Not working on a second site

Reply-To: [your-email]
Telephone: [tel-456]

I could not figure out why the difference. Then reading this entry here:

Additional Headers invalid mailbox syntax

When that post spoke of the “asterisk” beside the tag name, such as [email* your-email], that was the answer.

This means we cannot insert any “additional headers” where the corresponding tag name does NOT have an asterisk included.

Using the examples above, the tag names for email and tel MUST have an asterisk included in the settings under the Form tab, in order to insert the same tags in Additional Headers.

Therefore, using the second example above, for those Additional Header entries to work, I must have the following under the Form Tab,

[email* your-email]

[tel* tel-456]

Without the asterisk, entering any tag for Additional Headers will not work and the error will pop-up.

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I see this as very important to know. When I view the Contact Form 7 support page that apparently tried to explain this (https://contactform7.com/configuration-errors/invalid-mail-header/), it failed to include the requirement of matching tag asterisk.

This means people who view the support page with the same issue, will never figure out what is wrong when they follow the support page information exactly.

I suggest that the Form 7 developer add that very important piece of information AND any other “important” information that is required for Additional headers to avert syntax errors.

Basically, if you want to provide support information like that support page, write it for those who know very little about tags, WordPress, coding, etc. Always include the “required” information, such as, “All that is required to make it work“, as I have show above, the need for the “asterisk” is definitely a requirement for the Additional Headers to work.

Are there other things required for Additional Headers to work, such as for more advanced settings?

PS: I’ve also tried adding a Bcc: [email protected] to additional headers and that hasn’t worked either. Not sure what else to do.

In the mail tab, I set on additional header the text: Reply-To: [email]

My email tag is required, set as [email* email]

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

All plugins and WP are up to date.

In step 1, ask for the email [your-email],
In step 3 (final), I want to use the “Additional Headers” section of the mail tab to set the reply-to (see below)
Reply-To: [your-name] <[your-email]>

Contact form 7 is throwing up a configuration error, though…
Invalid mailbox syntax is used in the Reply-To field

I believe this is happening because CF7 doesn’t know that the content of that field is coming from step 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Reply-To: [your-email]

The “Reply-To” header remains set to our email address.

What are we doing wrong?

Using Amazon SES with WS SES plug-in.

Kevin

When I use the Reply-To header in additional headers with an existing tag, it does not seem to work.

I have the tag [email* e-posta] in the Forms, however, Reply-To: [e-posta] does not work.

When I type a manual e-mail address for the Reply-To header, however, it works (for instance Reply-To: [email protected]). Dynamic tag is problematic.

Any suggestions?

I receive an error “There was an error trying to send your message. Please try again later.”.

Looking in Postman SMTP, I see the following error, where [email protected] is the “your-email” from the form:
Invalid "Reply-To" e-mail address "[email protected], [email protected]"

I removed the [email protected] entry form the Additional Headers, and the email sends successfully.