Title: email setup
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# email setup

 *  [thomasd61](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasd61/)
 * (@thomasd61)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-setup-2/)
 * I have a wordpress site I have put in a contact form 7 and have an alias setup
   with my email account but when I send myself an email to check its working ok
   the email still says its from my original email instead of my alias can you tell
   me why this is? many thanks
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 *  Thread Starter [thomasd61](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasd61/)
 * (@thomasd61)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-setup-2/#post-6728788)
 * I have a wordpress site I have put in a contact form 7 and have an alias setup
   with my email account [sharpeknives@mail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-setup-2/sharpeknives@mail.com?output_format=md)
   but when I send myself an email to check its working ok the email still says 
   its from my original email [thomas1@therapist.netinstead](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-setup-2/thomas1@therapist.netinstead?output_format=md)
   of my alias can you tell me why this is? many thanks
 *  [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * (@jasonhendriks)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-setup-2/#post-6728849)
 * What’s in your form’s mail tab’s **from field**?

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 * Last reply from: [Jason Hendriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasonhendriks/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-setup-2/#post-6728849)
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