dalewarner
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] [Plugin: Contact Form 7] Still doesn't work🙁 Sorry I couldn’t help. I don’t know much about email.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] [Plugin: Contact Form 7] Still doesn't workYou’ve either got an error with your SMTP settings, or you need to create the address from which you are attempting to send the emails.
For example, the default ‘from address’ that wordpress uses is ‘wordpress@your-domain.com’
I would recommend creating that address, changing the ‘from address,’ ensure that your ‘to address’ is an address on the same domain, then test the form again.
If that works, then you’ve had a problem with the settings on your mail server.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Contact Form 7] [Plugin: Contact Form 7] Still doesn't workI had a problem with this as well.
To chase down the problem, I installed the “Email Log” plugin to verify that WordPress was sending the emails. I then installed “Configure SMTP” to override the outgoing server settings. I tried sending through GMAIL but that didn’t work. I changed my email address under WordPress>Settings>General to wordpress@mydomain.com (I actually had to create that email address on my mail server). Then I set the contact form to send to an internal email address – webmaster@mydomain.com (which I then forwarded to the external address that I actually wanted to send to info@otherdomain.com).
Not the cleanest solution but I didn’t have time to track down the problem and this works for now. I also recommend “Contact Form to DB Extension” so you can store all submissions to a database and verify it every couple of days.
I’m sure I could solve the problem the right way if I knew anything about email servers and mx records, but I don’t.