Contact Form 7 & Reply-To

What you’ve done is correct.

And if you want to get really fancy you can do:

Reply-To: “[your-name]” <[your-email]>

But it’s not working. When I hit reply to the email I’m replying to myself instead of the email address entered into the form.

Looking at the email I’m getting, reply to is being set in the headers, so I’m lost:

Why doesn’t it reply to the Reply-To address when I hit reply, instead I’m replying to myself.

Here are the email headers, just in case (my details have been changed)

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from https://www.mysite.com([XX.XXX.XX.XX])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y2sm14997529oei.1.2015.02.19.09.02.25
for <[email protected]>
(version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:02:26 -0800 (PST)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:02:50 +0000
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
From: Me <[email protected]>
Subject: Testing Contact From 7
Message-ID: <181be9822fd87aa5c88db24f7008016a@www.ssird2.com.php53-16.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.7 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/)
Reply-To: [email protected]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

From: Bobofet <[email protected]>
Subject: Testing Contact From 7

Message Body:
test

Perhaps your email client is to blame? I’m using Apple Mail in OS X Yosemite and it responds to the Reply-To header perfectly.

My raw email:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
X-Mailer: Postman SMTP v1.4 for WordPress
From: 'Bobo Fet' <[email protected]>
To: Jason Hendriks <[email protected]>
Reply-To: 'Bobo Fet' <[email protected]>
Subject: Test!
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:17:44 +0000
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
MIME-Version: 1.0

Test=0A=0A--=0AThis e-mail was sent from a contact form on Coding Monkey=
 (https://programmer.jasonhendriks.com)

It’s gmail. I’m thinking that it has something to do with using my own email address to send from and to and for some reason gmail is deciding on doing something different than it should be doing.

If anyone has some suggestions let me know, I’m going to try to set up a different email in SMTP if I can get one and see if that changes anything.

Well that’s your answer.

If the “From” address is either the same as the “To” address, or is configured in GMail Settings as one of the ‘Send As…’ accounts, Gmail replies to the “To” address instead of the “Reply-To” address. An easy workaround is to specify a non-Gmail “From” address

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2421234/gmail-appearing-to-ignore-reply-to

So this is definitely something to do with gmail. I sent to email to another email address that is not gmail and the reply-to works perfectly. Ya gotta love google, after all, they are smarter than the rest of us.

I use hotmail as SMTP since Gmail doesn’t work anymore. But I have the same problem

This has to do with Gmail and having the same address in the from as the to. If I do testing using my email to test with and send those emails to myself then it does not matter what is in the reply to, when I hit reply it goes to myself again. I’m sure this happens with other emails services and clients. You really need a separate email address to send all emails from.

Hi John, thanks for your reply.

I use [email protected] for the from address… and I use hotmail as an smtp service (smtp plugin).

Tried everything but none is working.

Seems to be the problem of the SMTP plugin?!

Not sure, it works fine for me as long as the email address I’m sending to is not also the address I’m sending from. Also the from needs to match the email account that’s sending the email. We generally make our clients set up email addresses specifically for this purpose, so in your case we would use [email protected] for the SMTP to send the emails.