Title: Cannot Dismiss Configuration Errors
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Cannot Dismiss Configuration Errors

 *  Resolved [swamparoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swamparoo/)
 * (@swamparoo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-dismiss-configuration-errors/)
 * I’ve noticed that Contact Form 7 now checks for possible configuration errors.
   The issue, though, is that it keeps on popping up the notice, even after you’ve
   dismissed it countless times before.
 * For my contact form, it says I have two configuration errors.
 * 1. In the from area, I have the following:
 * [your-name] < [your-email]>
 * I find it looks better having it formatted this way. I have tested the form many
   times and have yet to have any errors with this.
 * 2. For the subject, I have the following:
 * [your-subject]
 * I don’t see how that’s a configuration error. Whatever subject the user enters
   when filling out the form is what the subject of the email ends up being.
 * I understand the reasoning behind attempting to detect potential configuration
   errors, however, it would be nice to have an option to not have it keep popping
   up. Now, it’s just down right annoying.
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 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-dismiss-configuration-errors/#post-7314897)
 * If an email is being sent from your website domain, it should now have a FROM
   address from that domain. This is because emails are being spoofed by spammers
   and are being sent from a different domain (e.g. I send you a message from my
   domain but claim to be sending it from `paypal.com`). Such messages are being
   routed into the Spam folder, and so best practice is now to include a FROM email
   address that is from the website domain. Look at the following setup:
 * >  == MAIL ==
   >  From: **[your-name] <wordpress@your-domain.com>** Subject: **Re:[
   > your-subject]** Additional Headers: **Reply-To: [your-email]**
 * What happens and why:
 * 1. When you receive the message, it will have the sender’s name and be from the“
   wordpress” email address specified in FROM (Depending in your hosts, this may
   need to be a real email address (test to see if it processes), and it does need
   to be @your-domain.com).
    2. By including **Re:** in the SUBJECT, you will ensure
   that the field always has some text in it, even if the sender does not complete
   this field (Best practice is to ensure that there is at least some text in the
   subject field). Or, you can make the SUBJECT a required field in the *Form* by
   adding an asterisk: `[text* your-subject]` 3. Adding the `Reply-To: [your-email]`
   in ADDITIONAL HEADERS means that you can reply to the sender by hitting the Reply
   button in your email client. 4. If you want to actually see the sender’s email
   address in the message you receive you can include it in the MESSAGE section.
   For example:
 * >  MESSAGE BODY:
   > From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
   >  Subject: [your-subject]
   > [your-message]
 *  Thread Starter [swamparoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swamparoo/)
 * (@swamparoo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-dismiss-configuration-errors/#post-7314936)
 * I appreciate the information. While I understand your reasons given, I’ve decided
   to keep things as they are. I have added an asterisk next to the text for the
   subject to make it a required field. There’s no potential for the email being
   flagged as spam as I don’t have any spam filtering enabled. My site is running
   on an unmanaged VPS and I haven’t installed any spam filtering system.
 * I do have a shortcode in the email message to have the sender’s IP within the
   message using:
 * [wpcf7.remote_ip]
 * I know people can use VPNs, proxies, and so forth. However, should I ever have
   trouble from an IP or IP range, then I can easily add them to my VPS’ firewall.
 * After a quick search through the coding, I was able to easily remove the persistent
   notification message that kept appearing.
 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-dismiss-configuration-errors/#post-7314944)
 * Got it. You can also try this in your wp-config if you removed the notification
   manually:
 *     ```
       define( 'WPCF7_VALIDATE_CONFIGURATION', false );
       ```
   

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