Title: Sending Email Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sending Email Error

 *  Resolved [12preschph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/12preschph/)
 * (@12preschph)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-email-error/)
 * My message is a little strange. And honestly, probably is dumb. But here it goes:
 * Whenever someone creates an entry in the form, it is suppose to send a confirmation
   email with a link in it.
 * It DOES send an email to the administrator (the email i defined) that a post 
   was created.
 * It DOES NOT send an email to the user who created the form. This is because the
   plugin doesn;t know where to send the email! I deleted all of the fields in the
   Main tab and started over from scratch. I have a field named e_mail that i recently
   created.
 * So how does the plugin find the users email? Does the field name HAVE to be “
   email” without the underscore and it will send it to the email in that field.
   Because there is no option to define where it grabs the email to send.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated:) thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/participants-database/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/participants-database/)

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 *  Plugin Author [xnau webdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-email-error/#post-3643785)
 * yes, the field must be named ’email’ in order for the plugin to know to use that
   field. You can change the name directly in the database if you know what you’re
   doing in there, otherwise, delete the field and make a new one with that name’
   email’
 *  Thread Starter [12preschph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/12preschph/)
 * (@12preschph)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-email-error/#post-3643814)
 * Okay I did what you said and it doesn’t seem to work. I know the email server
   and configuration is correct because I get the email to our admin account saying
   the post was correctly added. But the user submitting doesn’t get the email.
 * Just to clarify, the name is “email” and looks correct.
 * I am assuming anyone who posts to it will be emailed, regardless if they are 
   logged in on my site. Correct?
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [12preschph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/12preschph/)
 * (@12preschph)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-email-error/#post-3643819)
 * Nevermind I got it working. Just a long delay on my mail server.

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [12preschph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/12preschph/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sending-email-error/#post-3643819)
 * Status: resolved