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Just make the site online. Offline contact forms don’t send mail, of course.

I have selected online. putting it online.
But the error remained.
Any new comments?

Blessings.

If you are trying to send emails from Contact Form 7, you will need to make sure you have a functioning mail server setup.

Local installs (using MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP etc.) often don’t have this capability.

Trying to test CF7 email functionality on a local WordPress installation with no mail server capability appears to be a common mistake.

Functioning mail server? I have outlook running.

Outlook is a mail client – not a mail server.

OK! The mail client signs up, or log into a server.
(The part within the account setting within OUTLOOK)
Where does it leave me with the Contact form 7?
I thought the form to interface in a similar manner than the code below?
<p>Kobus Dippenaar
Cell: (+27 82) 346 9098
E-Mail: Kobus Dippenaar </p>

The code above does invoke my outlook.
What do I need to do to get CF7 to work? wait till I am going live or is there a way out whilst running wampserver?

Thanking you all in advance,
Blessings

Hi Dippies

You appear to be confused by some of the terms we are using in our replies. I assumed you would be comfortable with all these terms because you are using a local WAMP server, which requires a relatively high level of web skills.

RE: What do I need to do to get CF7 to work? wait till I am going live or is there a way out whilst running wampserver?

The simple answer is yes “wait till I am going live”, because it’s quite difficult to set up to send emails from CF7 “whilst running wampserver”.

Note: Outlook is not relevant here.

Your WAMP server is acting like as local version of the sort of web servers we rely on when visiting websites all over the world. These web servers typically have an email server attached which can send emails to your email address.

You can use an email client like Outlook to receive emails that are sent from an email server to your address. When you reply to an email it goes back via Outlook to an email server attached to one of those web servers out there helping everyone send and receive emails.

Your local WAMP server is almost certainly not setup to do this email sending & receiving and it’s quite difficult to change that.

When you move to your live site the server there should have an email server which can sends emails from CF7.

Thank you, I understand. I guess we can close the topic.
Once again thank you for the feedback and teaching.
God Bless.