Configuration error TO: field [your-recipient]

I’m getting the same syntax error, but it still does work just fine.

In the mail section, the To field is set to [your-recipient] – is it OK to ignore this error?

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?@pr0fess0r – if you want you can ignore this error but I recommend that you don’t.
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?It’s important to realize that when a from gets submitted you are sending a regular email but you are doing it from WordPress via PHP. Just like normal emails your form email needs a valid To: From: and Subject: field.
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In your case if the form user may not supply this value. Then you would be trying to send an email without a To: field and the CF7 email sending process would fail. Your form users would then a see “Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method.” message. That is likely to confuse many people submitting your form.
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An easy way to fix this is the make [your-recipient] a required field e.g. [email* your-recipient].
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By the way, that has always been the case, so many of your form users may have been seeing that error.
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The CF7 Configuration Validator is now letting you know about the problem that your form users may have been seeing.

@buzztone – THANK YOU regarding the tip on required field [email* your-recipient] The form had been throwing this error on a field with multiple selections in a dropdown (including blank), it’s easy to overlook the simple solution.

I am having the same issue with the error as OP.
I have set up the [select your-recipient] tag for 8 “contacts”.
When I try to use the [select* your-recipient] in the Mail To: field I get the syntax error result.
I also get the same result trying the [email* your-recipient] as well as [select* your-recipient “Name|[email protected]” “Name2|[email protected]” “Name3|[email protected]”].
Any suggestions?