• Resolved mieche

    (@mieche)


    Every since the Configuration Validator was added I have been getting the following error on the From field for my contact form – This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site.

    I cannot figure out how to correct this as the email address is not supposed to match the domain since it is the users email address I am collecting. Is there any fix for this?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

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  • If an email is being sent from your website domain, it should now have a FROM address from that domain. This is because emails are being spoofed by spammers and are being sent from a different domain (e.g. I send you a message from my domain but claim to be sending it from paypal.com). Such messages are being routed into the Spam folder, and so best practice is now to include a FROM email address that is from the website domain. Look at the following setup:

    == MAIL ==
        From: <strong>[your-name] <wordpress@your-domain.com></strong>
        Additional Headers: <strong>Reply-To: [your-email]</strong>

    1. When you receive the message, it will have the sender’s name and be from the “wordpress” email address specified in FROM (Depending in your hosts, this may need to be a real email address (test to see if it processes), and it does need to be @your-domain.com).
    2. Adding the Reply-To: [your-email] in ADDITIONAL HEADERS means that you can reply to the sender by hitting the Reply button in your email client.
    3. If you want to actually see the sender’s email address in the message you receive you can include it in the MESSAGE section. For example:

    MESSAGE BODY:
    
    From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
    Subject: [your-subject]
    
    [your-message]

    Hope this helps.

    @mieche

    Please remove the <strong> tags from the MAIL setup I suggested earlier, as follows:

    == MAIL ==
        From: [your-name] <wordpress@your-domain.com>
        Additional Headers: Reply-To: [your-email]

    Thread Starter mieche

    (@mieche)

    Thank you, that has fixed the error

    Great!

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