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1. Lance007
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Any help would be much appreciated. I am new at this. I installed the plugin "fast and secure contact form" or something like that. It has captcha on it.

   I can fill out the form and it says that the message sent successfully but I don't receive the message in my inbox.
   I have tested my email and it does receive email sent from a normal email account.

   What could be the problem?

   Thanks

   Lance

2. Lance007
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oh - and my site is Lancesview.com or lancesview.com/blog1

   Thanks

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Mod
   Posted 2 years ago #

   http://annanta.com/web-world/wordpress-not-sending-email-try-this-fix/

4. Lance007
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks Esmi - will check it out.

5. Lance007
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   That article seems to be too complicated to fix this problem. I can't imagine I would have to go through all that.
   And it seems to relate more to a windows user whereas I'm on a Mac.
   Perhaps I'm wrong, but I would imagine there has to be a simpler way for it to work properly. No?

6. Lance007
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,
   All I did was add something to the "From" field in the options to the contact form.
   so I put "wordpress@lancesview.com" (since my blog is at http://www.lancesview.com )in the From field and now I can receive emails. Strange. I guess my email host doesn't allow emails without a "From" field.

   Hopefully it keeps working.

   Thanks

   Lance

7. TonyVitabile
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The fact that your email host doesn't deliver email without a "from" field sounds like a good thing to me. How would you know where the email originated from without it? It could be a spoofed message from a malicious individual, for all that the email host knows.

   Tony

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