Title: From Address Failed
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# From Address Failed

 *  [scottgreening](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottgreening/)
 * (@scottgreening)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/from-address-failed/)
 * I am trying to get wp-email installed and up and running. I am justing using 
   the plugin on specific posts not globally on our site. In testing out the form
   I keep getting the following error message:
 * > An error has occurred when trying to send this email:
   >  » The following From
   > address failed: [xxxx@xxxx.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/from-address-failed/xxxx@xxxx.com?output_format=md)_(
   > address omitted for privacy)_
 * I am using Mandrill as our SMTP server. What am I doing wrong?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/from-address-failed/)
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