Had the the same issues, it sure is not straightforward how to get it to work but then again it’s for free so can’t complain 🙂
Here is what you do:
1) select form you want to edit
2) click on Email & Actions
you very likely will not have anything there if yes, you still have to edit it
3) click on: Add New
4) For Action name: put there whatever you like
5) For type: select EMAIL
6) FROM NAME: click on field and it should pick one of the IDs
7) From Address: this is important part You need to select existing working email, this is email where all entries will be sent
8) you can leave TO and SUBJECT blank
9) for: Email Message click on INSERT ALL FIELDS
done, save it
Then again add another action from drop down menu this time: SUCCESS MESSAGE.
You don’t need to change anything there, just save it
Done, form should work
If it is still not working you might want to install plugin which could check if your WordPress Install can actually sent an email. Sometimes it might be blocked by web hosting company and you will need to get them to help you with that. This is actually what i’d do first before you waste your time with figuring out what is wrong with Ninja forms 🙂
Hello, I had the same problem, just resolved it thanks to this thread, but with one majore difference from milkod2001’s post:
The Ninja Forms should have already 3 default actions set up inside Settings page:
– Email the Admin
– Email the user
– Success message
The “Email Admin” action is actually the one where you set up to recieve the notification about the message that was sent to Ninja Form, and recieve it on your own e-mail. Here
you need to fill the TO field
with the e-mail address where you want to recieve the notification.
In my case it only works if that e-mail address is the one created specifically on the server which hosts the WordPress installation, it won’t work if it is my private address. So I just added the forwarder on my server to fetch any incoming e-mails to that address.
Hope this helps.
Hi to both of you!
Thank you very much for your time to answer my questions!
I haven’t had time to look into this problem but I will deffinitely consider your suggestions!
Many thanks
H
