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1. randaldick
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I have 2 WP sites; 1 on BlueHost where the Contact Form 7 works fine. The 2nd is hosted on Yahoo and it just doesn't work. I've read all the forum notes I can but nothing has helped. Yahoo says to setup PHP mail by defining a default user which I did but all the other help seems to be about writing my own scripts and/or forms which I'm not doing. I loaded WP-Mail (& tried WP-Email) and sent test e-mails using the PHP mail setting as my method and the mail went through so the PHP mail appears to work. I hope I'm missing something really simple but thought maybe somebody had this running on Yahoo and found the cure. Would love to get a hand with this.

2. trullinger
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I'm using Yahoo hosting, too, and I'm also stuck.

3. trullinger
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Okay, for all the folks out there who are using Yahoo hosting, I finally found the answer.

   As it turns out, Yahoo will only let specified users from your domain send email through a PHP script. So, if you use the standard contact form that the plugin provides, the "from" field defaults to whatever the user put in, and that won't work. If you replace it with your email, the script works fine.

   Here's the Yahoo documentation:
   http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/php/php-28.html

   Hope this helps all those frustrated Yahoo users out there!

4. CaseyChesh
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hey Randal I'm using BlueHost and it's not working for me. How'd you get your Contact Form 7 operational? Thanks!

5. bh_WP_fan
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   CaseyChesh: What problems are you having, and what is your domain name? Most likely your settings are missing something or have an incorrect entry.

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