From ignored

Try deactivating all other plugins and switching to the default theme.

@imoullet, I wrote a blog post on using your Visitor’s address as your From address. You might want to give it a read.

The short answer is Gmail does not support this feature – and you are using Gmail. Neither does Yahoo or Hotmail. Mandrill and SendGrid do support it, but only if you use a WordPress SMTP plugin that supports the Envelope From, like Postman SMTP.

@jason, Thanks for your info but in my case the message is sent anyway. It is just that the from address is substituted by the servername where wordpress is running.
I also tried to use another address with the same domain as our wordpress site ie for example @unil.ch and the same occurs..
Dommage !
Best regards

For info I deactivated all the plugins and whatever theme I use , I have the same problem…

You originally said

It seems our settings for any form is ignored

This is the part of my blog post that applies to you

There is one small but. Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo do NOT allow a different Message From and they will overrule Postman’s change. Other services, like Mandrill, allow it. YMMV.

Again, Gmail does not support this feature – and you are using Gmail.

I do not think it may be related to my host sendmail configuration since I use another WP plugins such as Mail poet for example and the From address is really the one I put in the plugin settings

Not if the From address is a Gmail address.

gmail address work perfectly on other CF7 forms on other site ( not multisite) . Moreover if I change the from address to a non gmail one the same problem occurs. So unfortunately, I have to look forwards for the source of this problem.
Anyone any other idea ??

Thanks.

I had the same problem and followed Takayuki Miyoshi’s advice by deactivating one PlugIn after another. My initial assumption was confirmed as soon as I took BuddyPress out of the game. Contact Form 7 accepted again every entry in the “from”-field on the Email-tab. Unfortunately, both BuddyPress and Contact Form 7 are ‘mission critical’ extensions for my WP installation so I’m a bit worried. Maybe I open a ticket on the BuddyPress forum.

Seems like I found a solution: please see this page.

Comment the bp_core_email_from_name_filter() function out and you’re good to go.

To anyone else having the issue, make sure your from address is set to an email address that actually exists.

I had mine set to [email protected] just so I could distinguish it from other emails coming in. However, I didn’t actually set up that email address in my hosting account because I didn’t plan on receiving email at that address.

When I changed the from email to an address I had already set up and that my host recognized ([email protected]) then it worked properly!

I still did not find any solution for my probleme. My from name is systematiccaly replaced by the servername.
Any one, any idea ?

Thanks for your help..

I finally found out that the from name was rewritten by cets_new_blog_default plugin.. For a strange reason it appears only in cf7 , not for MaiPOet for exampe. Probably different coding in the plugin ..