WP 3.6 doesn't work with CF7

That’s really hard way to do this. Just simply copy newer (3.7 beta) or older class-phpmailer.php file over the one from 3.6. Or wait for 3.7 to come and fix this bug.

Yep it’s a hard way but waiting for 3.7 isn’t an option as I have a live site, and for some reason copying the other versions of phpmailer.php just didn’t work for me. And having read some other forums there are some people in the same position. So yep, it’s a dirty workaround but it works on Bluehost and will keep me going until 3.7

I’ve been trying to get Contact Form 7 to work for days (current version installed from www.remarpro.com 9/6/13 – my site uses WordPress 3.6).

I have learned some of the issues have had to do with requirements by my host, DreamHost – I needed to do what ferreste describes above, but not just with the From address but also the To in the CF7 settings. Each of these addresses have to be email accounts associated with domains that live on a Dreamhost server. This is, i believe, an anti-spoofing measure on the part of DreamHost.

After I made this change to CF7 6 days ago, the form worked for a couple of days. Then 4 days ago i changed the perceived url of this WordPress site to be the root AND around this same time Dreamhost’s mail server went down. DreamHost support tells me today 9/12/13 that the mail server is back up and fine, but messages do not appear in my client’s email.

Through this entire time beginning with the initial problems last week, CF7 always gives the green SENT message each time – the messages just don’t make it to my client’s mailbox. EXCEPT when I tried the Qmail fix described above by Jack96161: I copied that code into class-phpmailer.php and uploaded it, but when I tried to send a message, CF7 went into some kind of infinite loop, the circling arrows beside the Submit button kept on and on. I never saw that happen before. So i’ve re uploaded the original phpmailer file again.

I believe that the problem is not CF7, but how it is working with the Dreamhost server – and I am corresponding with DreamHost support, but so far, to no avail.

I am at my wit’s end about this problem and am on the verge of just inserting an email link on my client’s Contact page – who is desperate for her website contact page to start working.

Thanks to anyone out there for any good ideas…

Can we mark this as re-opened? I appear to be having the same issue with Contact Form 7 and Dreamhost. I have one client using their hosting, and this is the second time I’ve had email issues within the week. None of my other clients are having any issues, so the only variable has to be the hosting.

As susantau said above, any ideas would be most appreciated.

lisa, do you know the name of the dreamhost email server that your client is on? the dreamhost mail server that went down this week is homiemail-sub4. went down tuesday and supposedly is happy and healthy again as of last evening.

Hmm, I’ll look. I know one of their other forms (they have four total) was kicking back a “null” error a couple of days ago, and that might explain why. It’s just kind of weird that it’s a different issue now, where it doesn’t even show the “null” box. I’ll check into the email server though. Thanks for the tip!

GREAT news for me and my client: CF7 is working finally.

I think the probs we were having were a combo of not getting the CF7 settings quite exactly right (see below) and also DreamHost having issues with their mail server this week.

Here’s a pretty good tutorial explaining how to set up CF7 so that a DreamHost server will not interfere with mail delivery.
https://savorywatt.com/2012/10/10/fix-contact-form-7-not-working-with-dreamhost/

Are users finding that updating to WordPress 3.7 fixes this problem. On most of our clients’ sites we’re finding that Contact Form 7 did not work (unless it was a Gmail address). I’m hoping that updating to WP 3.7 will fix CF7.