Configuration Error Message

Hello
In the configuration of the first email there is problem in field From: [your-email] and also the Subject field.
Now, after many attempts, From: [your-email] works and also works [your-subject] but always gives the message: “This field can be empty depending on user input.” even if the modules work, it start emails and they are received.
Thanks

In the From: section, instead of [email protected] try <[email protected]> Works for me

You need to use the domains email because its the server, not the form filler, thats sending the email. Some email servers are now seeing the form as spam-like or relaying.

However, when you switch to using the servers email, you then want to add to Additional Headers the following so you can Reply to the messages.
Reply-To: [your-email]

It’s for mailserver validation, not fixing the form per se.

Some Support images show using [your-email] in the From.
This is no longer valid.

Hi All,

I managed to find a solution to the problem by implementing the following:

1. Clicked on “Contact”
2. Clicked on “Contact Forms”
3. Clicked “Edit” under the from with the Configurator issue in order to navigate to the forms settings.
4. Clicked on the “Mail” tab to access the forms field settings.
5. Replaced the content of the “To” field with an email that matched my domain
e.g. “[email protected]” (replace [email protected] with the email you want to receive the information contained within the form.
6. Replaced the content of the “From” field with an email that matched my domain e.g. “[email protected]” (replace [email protected] with the email that matches your domain).
7. Replaced the “Subject” field with predetermined text e.g. “Website Customer Enquiry” leaving it blank gave me a Configurator error.

In summary, it appears you have to put actual content in the “To” “From” and “Subject” fields in order to solve the Configurator errors. Leaving any bracketed info such as [your-name] or [your-email] or [your-subject] trigger errors in the Configurator.

Hope the above is of some help.

@rickerby
My settings have always been like the ones you are suggesting, i.e. actual content, and my CF7 works fine. That’s why I strongly believe the “validator” is not working and we should ignore it. I don’t see the point in all this hacking you guys are trying. An error message is annoying but who cares, they’ll fix the validator in the future.

Here is the complete setup for contact form 7. These massagers are did not go to spam folders. I am using following settings… on my website

1.1-For contact bonus :

<p class="border-dashed">Your Name :[text* your-name] </p>
<p class="border-dashed">Your Email :[email* your-email] </p>
<p class="border-dashed">Subject :[text your-subject] </p>
Your Comments :
    [textarea your-message]
[submit "Send Email"]

1.2-Mail setup :

To: [email protected]
From: C4D Prime <[email protected]>
subject: [Contact-us]
Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

1.3-Massage body

From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject: [your-subject]

Message Body:
[your-message]

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This e-mail was sent from a contact form on C4D Prime - 3D Production pro stock (https://c4dprime.com)

Contact form 7
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:

To: [email protected]

From: C4D Prime <[email protected]>

Subject: Contact us

Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

Massage body: From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject: [your-subject]

Message Body:
[your-message]

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This e-mail was sent from a contact form on C4D PRIME (https://c4dprime.com)

IMPORTANT TICK MARK HTML YES.

Form news letter

<div class="newsletter-content">
	  [email* email id:newsletter-email class:newsletter-email placeholder "Your Email"]
[submit id:newsletter-submit class:newsletter-submit "Subscribe"]
</div>

mail setup

To: [email protected]

From: C4D Prime <[email protected]>

Subject: Newsletter
Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

Massage body: From: [email]
Subject: Subscribe

Message Body:
I want subscript your promotion!

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This e-mail was sent automatic. Please do not reply. Thanks alot!

Note Do not use mail2 tag other way your configuration error show on top.

@c4dprime, please don’t ask people to contact you

Spent way too much time on this already.
There are other simpler options.

Goodbye Contact Form 7

Having the same problem. But I’m using a drop down menu on our staff contact page and that no longer works the same. I rebuilt the drop down menu which creates a menu-tag like always, but now that doesn’t send out any emails. To solve the problem I had to add a comma after the menu-tag followed by another tag. So it looks like this:
[menu-123], [your-name] <[your-email]>
That works and the sender gets a copy of the message, but it still has the error message. Without the comma it doesn’t work.

I was having a syntax error that I couldn’t figure out as well, but I figured it out.
Turns out that you can’t reference [your-email] (or whatever your email input field is called) in the “From” or the “Additional Headers” section on the Mail tab unless that field in the form is marked as REQUIRED.

In other words, you can only use that tag in those parts of the Mail tab if your form includes:
[email* your-email]

But if your form says:
[email your-email]
then you will be unable to use that tag in some places.

Thanks garrettw. That got rid of the error. I just changed [select ] to [select* ] and the error went away.

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