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Sorry, I just noticed you did say you have Email as a required field. I think that’s the default anyway. Have you checked that the correct field is selected in the drop-down menu in the Email section?

I had the same problem, and here’s how I fixed it.

At the top of your form click on the Settings button to reveal the 4 sections (General, Email, Confirmation, and Notification). In the Email section you can set the user’s name and email — but you must first make those 2 fields required. (Each will show a red star if so.)

VFB doesn’t by default include a Name field in the list of available fields, so make sure you have created a Text field and designated it as Name or whatever you want to show up in the From email you receive when the form is submitted.

I’ve found that not having a Name field pop in, only the Email field, causes VFB to put “WA” as the name when I hit reply to the form I receive.

Hope this helps!

Thanks! If I buy the developer’s license and later want to buy just 1 add-on, I assume I can use the add-on on unlimited sites, right?

@jlehrer, Yes, that is what he meant. I know because after trying the demo of the Pro version in the link above, I can verify it does use the recaptcha I wanted… the good one where the user just needs to check the box. Awesome! (Though I still don’t understand how this can thwart a bot.)

I just had a “DOH!” moment reading my original post. We can just create our own captcha field in the free version! We don’t need to be able to retrofit the existing one as I laid out. The spammers who know about the flaw and are exploiting it are probably not going to realize there is a 2nd captcha field. I’ll call it the “gotcha” field ??

I was finally able to establish that Contact Form DB plugin is working correctly. Hurray! I suspect that a spammer was manipulating data submission to the Quick form (which had no captcha) and masking it to look like it came from the Contact-us form. I have installed a captcha now so that will probably solve that problem.

Thanks again for your help and attention, Michael.

Thanks again, Michael. CF7 is sending emails, as far as we know. It might be just a glitch that’s causing CFDB to merge the submissions from 2 forms on the dashboard page.

CF7 had a couple of config errors, which I thought might be factors in CFDB not working correctly, but I finally resolved those today. I then submitted another round of forms.

Thanks for your help.

I suspect this will all be for naught, because the theme developer apparently coded a special contact form in the backend for all the property listing pages. When I view source in the browser it has another form name. It’s proprietary, so not one you can support unfortunately.

I really appreciate the time you’ve taken and apologize for wasting it!

Thanks, Michael! I didn’t see your answer until now.

Yes, CFDB is still merging submissions to 2 forms — but it’s captured only the 2 spams sent thru the Contact-us form, and none of the tests we’ve sent to get the correct form recognized so it will appear in the dropdown menu to be selectable.

Before I uninstall CFDB, do you have any ideas on what I could try?