Title: 1 configuration error found Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # 1 configuration error found * [monilyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monilyn/) * (@monilyn) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/) * Hello, I do not understand whether it is a fatal error if in the contact form setup in ContactForm/Mail/From put in (for example) My Client <[EmailClient-field] >. * CF7’s DEBUG: This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site. * It actually works the same good. Just that there is a debug: 1 configuration error found. * Please, can you help me to fix this problem? Thank you, Moni * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/) * (@takayukister) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/#post-7124362) * See [How to Resolve Configuration Errors](http://contactform7.com/configuration-errors/) * [aswitahidayat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aswitahidayat/) * (@aswitahidayat) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/#post-7124661) * Same here I configure contact email to `myemail@mali.com, [mail]` It’s works, but i get error `1 configuration error found`. * [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/) * (@pidengmor) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/#post-7124662) * [@aswitahidayat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aswitahidayat/) * The problem is the mail-tag `[mail]` in the TO field of MAIL. Remove that so you have `To: myemail@mali.com` If you want to send a copy of the message to the client then use MAIL(2) not MAIL. * [epsilon0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epsilon0/) * (@epsilon0) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/#post-8348725) * If the configuration error is due to the error message in the “From” field under the “messages” tab, then this error is very easy to fix. * The reason for this headache is in the misunderstanding of this field. We all understood The “From” field as a user email address, however the ones who built the form, want it to be a field that will indicate to the email’s receiver where the email originated. The answer to the problem is in the documentation [http://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-email-issues/#spam](http://kb.cf7skins.com/contact-form-7-email-issues/#spam) where the developers explained that this field is suppose to have the same domain name as the website to avoid spamming. * for example if your website is: [http://www.mywebsite.com](http://www.mywebsite.com), all you need to do is put the following data in the email field From : [contact@mywebsite.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/contact@mywebsite.com?output_format=md) * this email doesn’t need to be valid. so when the user submit the form, you will receive an email with from: wordpress if you want to replace that default “wordpress” in the from field, for example type in the From field: Contact Us Form again [contact@mywebsite.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/contact@mywebsite.com?output_format=md) doesn’t need to be valid. most important to remember is mywebsite.com should match the domain name of your website. * you may think where to put the user’s email address, you could add it in the message body. That is the way the contact form 7 developer came up with this preventing spams idea, I would have done it different way 🙂 * hope this will help. - This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [epsilon0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epsilon0/). Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘1 configuration error found’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/contact-form-7/assets/icon.svg?rev=2339255) * [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/reviews/) ## Tags * [configuration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/configuration/) * 4 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [epsilon0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/epsilon0/) * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-configuration-error-found/#post-8348725) * Status: not resolved