Selectable Recipient Validation Error Workaround

After the new update v4.4

You cannot put [your-recipient] into the “To” field without it throwing a syntax error.

I think it is only validating for emails and doesn’t like the square brackets.

Anyway I turned off the validation as a quick workaround to get things working again.

File: contact-form-7/includes/config-validator.php

Code Snippet:
$recipient = $components[‘recipient’];
$recipient = new WPCF7_MailTaggedText( $recipient,
array( ‘callback’ => $callback ) );
$recipient = $recipient->replace_tags();
$recipient = wpcf7_strip_newline( $recipient );

/* This is causing problems to Selectable Recipients
if ( ! $this->test_to_field_syntax( $recipient ) ) {
$this->add_error( sprintf( ‘%s.recipient’, $template ),
self::error_invalid_syntax );
}
*/

$additional_headers = $components[‘additional_headers’];
$additional_headers = new WPCF7_MailTaggedText( $additional_headers,
array( ‘callback’ => $callback ) );
$additional_headers = $additional_headers->replace_tags();

https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/