Hi drixe,
Thank you for reporting this and for giving the plugin a try.
I’d like to clarify the purpose of the plugin, as I believe there may be some confusion about how it works.
Valid Email Verification for Contact Form 7 does not send a verification email or verification link to the form sender. Instead, its purpose is to validate the submitted email address and prevent the same email address from being submitted more than once.
When a user submits a form:
- The plugin checks whether the email address is valid.
- It checks whether that email address has already been used in a previous successful submission.
- If the email has already been used, the form submission is prevented and a duplicate-email validation message is displayed.
- A new, unused email address can be submitted normally.
The plugin description currently states:
“It helps prevent duplicate and fake email submissions, improving the quality of your form leads and reducing spam.”
And one of its main features is:
“Block duplicate email submissions in Contact Form 7.”
So, despite the name “Email Verification,” this plugin is not an email-confirmation/verification-link plugin. It is designed specifically for email validation and duplicate-email prevention.
I hope this clarifies the intended functionality. Thank you again for taking the time to report your experience.
