‘From’ address – emails appearing in long chain

  • Hi all,

    I recently changed the values of the ‘from’ field to: ‘[your-name] <[email protected]>’ as it said it wasn’t validated before this (although was working perfectly)

    The contact form is sent to my address for which I am using gmail. since making this change, all of my email requests through contact form 7 are appearing as a chain as one conversation even though they are all from different people. I would like to have the user’s e-mail address in the ‘from’ field but I understand you can’t do this.

    Can anyone advise a way to fix this? I’m a bit stumped.

    Note:
    – this was working before (can’t remember what that setting was)
    – this isn’t to do with g-mail’s ‘conversation’ setting

    Many thanks in advance!

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  • One way around this is to revert back to: From: [your-name] [your-email] (assuming that [your-email] is the form-tag) and to then disable the validator in wp-config.php:

    
/** The Contact Form 7 plugin configuration check. */
define( 'WPCF7_VALIDATE_CONFIGURATION', false );
    Thread Starter pixelchicken

    (@pixelchicken)

    Thanks barnez. I tried this but the ‘WPCF’ line is nowhere to be found in my config file. Also wouldn’t this mean that the form doesn’t have to be validated at all?

    Any other ideas out there?

    Thanks ??

    You would need to add that line of code to wp-config on a fresh line and before the end of the file where it says something like: “That’s it. Start blogging.” You could take a backup of the file first for rollback purposes.

    Yes, this means that you will lose the benefit of the validator. However, you can still use the plugin site to follow the best practice for setting up mail.

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