epsilon0

This error is very easy to fix.

The reason for this headache is in the misunderstanding of this field. We all understood The “From” field as a user email address, however the ones who built the form, want it to be a field that will indicate to the email’s receiver where the email originated. The answer to the problem is in the documentation https://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-email-issues/#spam where the developers explained that this field is suppose to have the same domain name as the website to avoid spamming.

For example if your website is: https://www.mywebsite.com, all you need to do is put the following data in the email field
From : [email protected]

This email doesn’t need to be valid. so when the user submit the form, you will receive an email with from: wordpress <[email protected]>
if you want to replace that default “wordpress” in the from field, for example type in the From field: Contact Us Form <[email protected]> again [email protected] doesn’t need to be valid. most important to remember is mywebsite.com should match the domain name of your website.

You may think where to put the user’s email address, you could add it in the additional header or the message body. That is the way the contact form 7 developer came up with this preventing spams idea, I would have done it different way ??

Hope this will help.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by epsilon0.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by epsilon0.

If the configuration error is due to the error message in the “From” field under the “messages” tab, then this error is very easy to fix.

The reason for this headache is in the misunderstanding of this field. We all understood The “From” field as a user email address, however the ones who built the form, want it to be a field that will indicate to the email’s receiver where the email originated. The answer to the problem is in the documentation https://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-email-issues/#spam where the developers explained that this field is suppose to have the same domain name as the website to avoid spamming.

for example if your website is: https://www.mywebsite.com, all you need to do is put the following data in the email field
From : [email protected]

this email doesn’t need to be valid. so when the user submit the form, you will receive an email with from: wordpress <[email protected]>
if you want to replace that default “wordpress” in the from field, for example type in the From field: Contact Us Form <[email protected]> again [email protected] doesn’t need to be valid. most important to remember is mywebsite.com should match the domain name of your website.

you may think where to put the user’s email address, you could add it in the message body. That is the way the contact form 7 developer came up with this preventing spams idea, I would have done it different way ??

hope this will help.

If the configuration error is due to the error message in the “From” field under the “messages” tab, then this error is very easy to fix.

The reason for this headache is in the misunderstanding of this field. We all understood The “From” field as a user email address, however the ones who built the form, want it to be a field that will indicate to the email’s receiver where the email originated. The answer to the problem is in the documentation https://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-email-issues/#spam where the developers explained that this field is suppose to have the same domain name as the website to avoid spamming.

for example if your website is: https://www.mywebsite.com, all you need to do is put the following data in the email field
From : [email protected]

this email doesn’t need to be valid. so when the user submit the form, you will receive an email with from: wordpress <[email protected]>
if you want to replace that default “wordpress” in the from field, for example type in the From field: Contact Us Form <[email protected]> again [email protected] doesn’t need to be valid. most important to remember is mywebsite.com should match the domain name of your website.

you may think where to put the user’s email address, you could add it in the message body. That is the way the contact form 7 developer came up with this preventing spams idea, I would have done it different way ??

hope this will help.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by epsilon0.