Working with CF7

Resolved Francesco
(@francy27)

2 weeks, 6 days ago
Hi,
thank you for this plugin. I’m a huge fan of the Meow ecosystem.

I switched from https://wpmailsmtp.com/ in order to get logs (crucial for my business).

The Meow SMTP works fine, but I noticed a problem with CF7. I set up this additional fields in the module settings in order to have multiple recipients.
```
To: [_site_admin_email]
== Additional ==
cc:francesco@domain.it
Reply-To: [your-email]
```
With the old SMTP plugin it worked just fine, but with the new Meow mailer the “CC” fields are missing and I didn’t receive the email. The result appeared in the Meow logs:
```
Date: 2026-07-28 11:54:51
Status: Sent
Provider: Generic SMTP
From: SiteName <info@domain.it>
To: info@domain.it
Subject: [Contact Form] "Nuovo invio"
Content: ...
```
I also tried with mail-tester.com and the result was 10/10.

Thank you for your help

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Thread Starter Francesco
(@francy27)

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Some updates here: Even if in the log I can’t see the “CC” recipients, I fixed this problem by turning on the “Force From” setting under the SMTP credentials, CF7 was overwriting it.

Thank you anyways.

Plugin Author Jordy Meow
(@tigroumeow)

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hi @francy27,

Thanks for coming back with the solution, and you diagnosed it correctly. Contact Form 7 sets its own From: header, which takes priority over the sender configured in Meow Mailer unless Force From is enabled. That mismatch is the usual reason mail gets rejected or filtered, so turning it on was the right fix.

About the CC, it was actually being sent the whole time. Every provider in the plugin passes CC and BCC through, but the logs only ever displayed the “To” field, so your CC recipient was invisible even though they received the email.

Both are fixed in the next release, 0.1.6:

The log detail now shows Cc, Bcc, and Reply-To whenever the email had them. The log list shows a “+1” next to the recipient when there are extra ones, so you can see it without opening the entry. The CSV export includes Cc and Bcc columns. And the settings will warn you when a form plugin is likely overriding your sender, pointing at Force From.

Nothing to do on your side. Your existing log entries already have this data stored, so the CC recipients will simply appear once you update! 😊

Thanks for telling me, its really helpful!
Thread Starter Francesco
(@francy27)

2 weeks, 5 days ago
Hi,
thanks a lot for your updates.

I’ve just installed the new version. Everything works just fine.

Here’s the log for the last Contact Form email:
```
Date: 2026-07-28 16:36:27
Status: Sent
Provider: Generic SMTP
From: Business <no-reply@app.domain.it>
To: info@domain.it
Cc: e1@domain.it, e2@domain.it, e3@domain.it, e4@domain.it
Reply-To: customer@domain.it
Subject: [Contact Form] "Hi Test"
```
Thanks again for this simple but wonderful plugin!
Plugin Author Jordy Meow
(@tigroumeow)

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Wonderful, thanks for confirming! That screenshot is exactly what the new log view was made for, I am very happy to see that, it’s perfect! 😊

By the way, Meow Mailer is only a few weeks old, so it doesn’t have many reviews yet. If you feel it deserves one, it would genuinely help others find it: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meow-mailer/reviews/#new-post. Of course, no pressure!

Cheers,
Jordy.

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