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Eponce
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I had perfectly working latest contact form 7 updated on my 4.4 sites. WP auto updated 4.4.1 Must be after that that forms don’t send messages anymore. I get error message: “Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method.”
I have changed nothing.I can’t understand why this is happening. If I create a new form, that works fine. THIS IS Happening to several sites (they are all in different hosting)
Anything to fix this, other than creating all form again????
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
Thread Starter
Eponce
(@eponce)
@buzztone Thank you for posting on these threads about the error message after upgrading to 4.4.1. For us, The new rules released for mod security are not the cause of the issue. We have confirmed with our host running Nginx that they are not using Mod_security.
We’ve deactivated all other plugins including an STMP sending plugin and we are still getting the “Failed to send…” message with WordPress 4.4.1. WordPress 4.4.0 works.
Some users in that previous post mentioned issue related to the the Mail (2) option. We are not using the Mail (2) option.
We had our website name in the From field. We liked having our website name in the From field so that our sales team can more easily see that the email is coming from the website.
Using the default [your-name]<[your-email]> in the From field works but we are hoping that at some point CF7 releases an update that allows us to have our website name in the From field.
@buzztone
The From: field is definitely meant to be an email address.
Yes. Well noted.
using [your-name] <[your-email]> is risky and will cause problems on many hosts.
I’ve updated the From field to Our Website Name <website@ourwebsitename.com>. This works and allows the sales team to easily identify inbound email from the website.
This Contact Form 7 Email Issues is an excellent post by the way. Also, I took a look at your cf7 skins. Very nice!
