dtynan

sreekanth.cool – if you still need help then open a new ticket and describe the problem in detail and include a link to your page if it’s public. thanks

Great, glad you figured it out and got it working. Couple of comments:

A few people have reported problems where the most recent WordPress upgrade broke their existing Email Before Download setup. Those people were all using something other than “your-email” as the field name in the CF7 form for the email that the web surfer would type in to the form. Changing their forms to put your-email in there fixed it for those folks. Some of those people were set for ‘inline’ (not ‘both’ or ’email’) so it’s not exactly clear why they would need to have your-email in there (since nothing is emailed), nor is it clear why putting it in there fixed it. My best guess is that the “your-email” thing didn’t actually do anything, but they somehow got a new CF7 form ID or something like that and that’s what actually fixed it, though I can’t prove that.

It’s difficult to explain, but EBD may end up pulling “old” data out of the database because it pulls based on IDs. Thus, it might miss some changes you did or keep pulling old bad data out of the database. That is why it is often helpful to start completely over — get a new CF7 form (so you get a new ID), reupload your files so they get new IDs (I usually tell people to give them different filenames too), etc. Essentially, make everything brand new, which is similar to what you did to fix things for yourself.

Anyway, glad you got it working…

I assume you mean that most of the emails EBD is sending out are ending up in the user’s spam folder or possibly not showing up at all, correct?

If that’s right, then the problem is most likely due to the From: of the email. Many email providers will either not accept email at all or will accept it but it will end up in the spam folder because the From: of the email is going to make it look like spam if you are using a shared-hosting provider like a Bluehost or a Hostgator or something like that.

In other words, if your website’s domain is thisismydomainname.com then you need the From: of your outgoing email to be somerealemailaccount@thisismydomainname.com but that’s not going to be what it is on Bluehost or Hostgator or any shared-hosting provider.

To fix that, you can install the Postman SMTP plugin from Jason Hendriks. That’s what most people on here do when they realize that some of the outgoing mail is not arriving (Yahoo mail will block it, so you can use a Yahoo mail account to test with and see if it shows up or not). If you don’t want to use Postman SMTP then you can use a plugin called Custom Sender For Email Before Download which allows you to type in the From: for EBD’s outgoing emails (and that’s all it does). Note that if you use that plugin, then you may have to put that From: value back in there every time you resave your EBD settings (at least for me, it wipes out that value every time I resave EBD settings and I have to go put it back in there).

So, generally that’s going to fix everything. However, if you continue to have problems getting email into the Inbox rather than the Spam folder, then you need to look into doing some of the anti-spam stuff like setting your SPF, DomainKeys, DMARC, etc — that will take some time & research on your part.

if you have a bit of php editing experience then you could edit email-before-download.php and comment out the two lines that begin with @wp_mail by putting // in front of them, so it looks like: // @wp_mail(whatever….)

I think that will work if I remember correctly, though I might be mistaken, I don’t recall how that part of the code works at the moment & am too lazy to go look it up. I don’t think it checks any kind of return code or anything, so commenting them out should be ok (there are two areas that call @wp_mail because one is for if you chose ’email’ and the other is for ‘both’)

I don’t think there’s a way to do that through any kind of option or setting. However, there are a couple of things you could do:

1. You could create a filter in your mail program or mail provider (like gmail or whatever) that automatically deletes those notification emails.

2. Or you could make it send to an email address that you never bother to check (and thus you never see the messages). That notification email is sent by Contact Form 7. So, you can go into your Forms and edit your form and then go to the Mail tab and change the To: to be some other email address that exists but that you don’t bother to check.

I have never used that feature. As far as I can tell, what happens is that email address the web surfer puts into your form gets checked against each of the blocked domains. If the domain in the email address matches one of the domains in your list of blocked domains then it will not send an email and I think it will instead put a message on the screen to the web surfer telling him the email is not allowed.

The code looks to me like it should work. The syntax for the blocked domain list is just:
gmail.com,whatever.com,somethingelse.org

or something like that. Domain names with commas between and no spaces. If you just had one then no commas of course.

jsavoor – it sort of does what you are trying to do, but not exactly. You can create a page in WordPress and on that page you can have a field for the user to input their email address (and name or whatever). You can also have a list of products (downloads) with a checkbox next to each one. The user can check one or more of those products and enter his email address and hit submit. Then, if configured this way, it can send the user an email with a download link to each file he checked (or the files can be attached to the email).

The user interface for that is via checkboxes only — no dropdown menu like you want. But, generally, it accomplishes what you are trying to do. You have to use the ebd or ebd_left codes in order to do checkboxes (see the screenshots page).

you can’t do either one of those things.