If you are not receiving email notifications of what has been downloaded, how do you know what the “from” of the email is? Are you saying that’s what’s in the Contact Form 7 screen you filled in or…?
Are you set to inline, email, or both?
I assume you are the administrator of your wordpress. Do you get any emails from your wordpress installation? Is your admin email address in wordpress settings the same as the “from:” address you configured in Contact Form 7?
If you are not receiving email notifications of what has been downloaded, how do you know what the “from” of the email is?
When I was receiving these emails, this was the case. It always bothered me, I addressed the issue once on this forum, but it never got solved.
that’s what’s in the Contact Form 7 screen you filled in or…?
What is in the “from” field of the mail form is (I didn’t type it in, it was auto-filled and I didn’t change it): [your-name]. Should this be [your-name] <[your-email]> instead?
Are you set to inline, email, or both?
I have it set to inline. The visitor does NOT receive an email (we don’t want them to receive and email). We (as administrators) should get the email notifications that the download occurred. (which is what I am not getting).
Is your admin email address in wordpress settings the same as the “from:” address you configured in Contact Form 7?
Yes the same… although, in the “To” field I have two emails, one that is mine (same as the wordpress email), separated by a comma, and there is a second email. This worked in the past.
I’m sorry, when I said the “from:” I really meant the “to:”, so I’m glad you included that in your reply. I suspect the comma with the second email address is breaking it. Change the “to:” to be just your email address and no commas or anything else in there. You can leave the from: as it is.
Change the “to:” to be just your email address and no commas or anything else in there. You can leave the from: as it is.
I did remove the comma and the second email, so it’s just the one that also is the wordpress admin email. I left everything else the same.
Although, I have tested and I still am not receiving emails.
save what you have in the “from:” into a text file then change the “from:” to be the same email address as the from: is when you get an email from wordpress itself (probably something like wordpress@somehostname.com or something like that).
You can make wordpress send you an email by adding a user (and then delete the user). That should cause it to send an email to your admin email address. You can then look at the from: on that email & get the email address it’s using then put that email address into the from: in the Contact Form 7 form you’re using (if you created multiple CF7 forms then make sure the one you’re modifying really is the same one that is in your shortcode).
