Contact Form 7 not working on AWS Lightsail instance

Sending emails directly from any WordPress form plugin on a AWS Lightsail instance is likely to require considerable experience and skill. It’s probably going to be a lot harder than from typical shared hosting.

See If You Have Email Problems for a general guidance on the issues involved.

In your case sending emails through an external SMTP server is likely to be the easiest option.

Thanks @buzztone!

I just found out that bitanmi installs of WordPress come with WP Mail SMTP Plugin, just wasnt activated. I activated and performed the email test. I received this warning. Any ideas?

There was a problem while sending a test email. Related debugging output is shown below:

Versions:
WordPress: 4.9.7
WordPress MS: No
PHP: 7.0.30
WP Mail SMTP: 1.2.5

Params:
Mailer: mail
Constants: No

Server:
PHP.mail(): Yes

The message indicates you are very long way from getting this to send emails on AWS.

I’ve heard that sending emails from a WordPress site on AWS is complex and requires considerable skill & experience in this area.

As I suggested using “an external SMTP server is likely to be the easiest option” if you don’t have those sort of skills & experience.

Cool, thanks again for your help