I’m sorry about that… it’s an incompatibility with php 5
I’ve just issued an update to the Contact Button plugin, version 1.3.1, that fixes this.
That’s good now. Some feeback re masquarading, now that I have configured the contact button. In order to maximise receipt of the contact emails, we will always use the email and name of our organisation as the Sender name and Sender email and advise the [pdbcff-sender_name] and [pdbcff-sender_email] in the body of the email message to the target group.
However, if you were able to add the ability to specify a value for the ‘Reply-to’ mime field in your email templates, then we would want to add the [pdbcff-sender_email] in that field position of the email template. If you do that, the target group can click reply and the email to field will be populated by [pdbcff-sender_email].
With the setup advice that you give, it may be that many emails may not get through due to mailservers or ISPs considering that the emails are masquarading.
As you may know, the “from” address would be used for a email reply, it’s not necessary to add the reply-to address unless you want that to be a different address from the sender address.
At any rate, it is possible to add the reply-to header using a bit of custom code. I’ve posted a gist that provides a simple plugin to do this. You will need to modify it to your situation.
https://gist.github.com/xnau/7c3a999fb73ca1b02117d0c7b811bc15
As a side note, from what I’ve seen, the presence or absence of the reply-to header does not affect the deliverability of the email. I run several email services for clients and I watch this stuff pretty closely. More important, I’ve found, is to have your sending server properly configured and for the server/IP to have a good reputation. The server should be configured to be able to verify the sender as legitimate. (SPF, DKIM, etc.)
ta so much for doing that, but was hoping for the reply-to address that was not static but a shortcode [pdbcff-sender_email] – I suspected that this would not succeed but tried anyway.
On the masquerade, we saw a change in Yahoo behaviour back in Sep 2018 where our emails were rejected for masquerading – so we stopped and used reply-to as recommended.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN7253.html
Agree with all your comments.
Thanks for that…it’s a moving target as the email services try to filter out the spam.
