Using Contact Form 7, what else to do besides installing it

  • I installed Contact Form 7 onto the web page naively thinking that’s all that’s necessary to do to get the contact form working, including sending the email. The need is simply to provide a way for someone in the public to contact the owner of the website. I expect that when that is achieved, the two will carry on a conversation by email, outside the website. I am an agency wherein each customer has their own subdomain of the visipress.net domain.

    (1) I need the form “From” address to not have to be the same domain as the page where the form is installed, i.e., I expect my customers (each on a subdomain of their own) can use the email address of their choice. I can’t require them to buy an email address just for this feature. If that’s not true, I can’t use Contact Form 7.

    … If there’s a way to get around this, then I will appreciate how to get around it, and an answer to the question (2).

    … If this is intrinsic to Contact Form 7, can you recommend an alternate plugin.

    (2) I stumbled across something that says DKIM not set. I didn’t expect I have to do DNS stuff with BlueHost host. I thought installing the plugin would take care of such things. (SPF and PTR are apparently set correctly).

    Thank you very much for your help!

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by k44g.
    • This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by k44g.

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  • Plugin Author Takayuki Miyoshi

    (@takayukister)

    See Best practice to set up mail

    Thread Starter k44g

    (@k44g)

    So be it about using an email address with domain same as site domain.

    I created a new one having the domain same as the website (sbrhorseback.visipress.net) and see its creation confirmed. (It’s for the owner of the website at this subdomain, like this [her-first-name]@sbrhorseback.visipress.net … and the page exists of course.

    But I get “Invalid email” when testing the form. Being a “From” address in the form — meaning submitted from someone in the public — any valid domain should be allowed, so that can’t be the problem. In my test, I used the email address corresponding to me Bluehost account. Also tried a @me.com address. And also tried an email address provided to me by my school.

    Thread Starter k44g

    (@k44g)

    I studied all there is about installing Contact Form 7 onto my website of course activating it, and including following this WP Learning Lab tutorial about doing the various settings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy70WGCjMY4

    It shows using a From email address that, in the example, doesn’t seem to bear any resemblance to a website page domain, but more importantly, no restrictions are stated about the email domain and the page domain having to be the same. So I did the various settings for the default form. Easy stuff. Please note that my website page on which the form is posted is a subdomain page (a single page subdomain website, FWIW). The presenter on the email said that’s all there is to it. And saved it all. Was he wrong not to mention that domain matching restriction?

    Then I tried it on my website. But I got no indication email was sent, plus
    “invalid email” was presented just above the form.

    Please advise what my next step should be. What am I missing?

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by k44g. Reason: (fixing format and grammar, but no substance.)
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