Title: Contact Form 7 Update Validation Errors Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Contact Form 7 Update Validation Errors * [SSavage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ssavage/) * (@ssavage) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/) * Hello, * I use Contact Form 7 for people visiting different areas of my website to send me a message so my problem may be slightly different than others. * In the TO field I have to use my domain email address and in the FROM field I have to use tags to pull the person sending me the msg so I have [your-name] <[your-email]> in the FROM field and it is giving me a validation error because it is not showing the website’s domain in the FROM field. * For the most part, the email sent to my visitors is sent using my newsletter signup validator integrated with Contact Form 7. * Is there a way for it to validate that the FROM field has a proper email tag instead of it having a hard coded email address? * God Bless, Shawn * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 23 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Ninjini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjini/) * (@ninjini) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098602) * I’m also getting a validation error on [your-name] <[your-email]> but I cannot see what’s wrong with that setting. * [vegastriguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegastriguy/) * (@vegastriguy) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098648) * Yes, same here….very, very annonying! * [cnymike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cnymike/) * (@cnymike) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098654) * I’m alerted to a validation error also. But don’t see one and forms are being sent and received as expected. Wonder if the plugin update has a bug? * [Ron Boyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orionsweb/) * (@orionsweb) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098701) * Is this simply a bug in the validation update? It’s very annoying maybe if it came up as an alert or caution instead of an error? * [Tina Shaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christinashaw/) * (@christinashaw) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098715) * Also came here for this error, but suspect a bug in the update it just did, based on everyone else’s inquiries, too. Will wait it out… * [mardala](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mardala/) * (@mardala) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098718) * This also doesn’t take into account sending from the server where the site is hosted is not always going to match the FROM field in the email of the site that hosts the contact form. * Also on a multisite where forms are purely for contact leads, sending (in our case) is managed using an SMTP server thru AWS with hundreds of sites and will never match the domain in the FROM field (as that matches the smtp server so emails are not bounced). Use the Reply-To for the sender. * [kozza42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kozza42/) * (@kozza42) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098723) * This error is really annoying me. My clients are contacting me because of it, when there is no REAL issue. Everyone is still getting the emails, but the error is very disconcerting. It’d be nice if once you pressed the X, the error didn’t come back! * [Bullies of NC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bullies-of-nc/) * (@bullies-of-nc) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098742) * This configuration error – “This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site” never existed until the latest plugin update. The contact forms I have on my website have been working fine for the past 3 years and they seem to still be working fine regardless of the error listed in the FROM line within the MAIL tab. * Hopefully there’s a good explanation as to the sudden errors being captured on Contact forms that haven’t been changed in years which worked perfectly fine. * The FROM should only be capturing the email address of the recipient who filled out the form. With this said, why would this error explain that email address does not belong to the same domain? That email address shouldn’t have anything to do with the site domain if it’s coming from a public user visiting the website. * I think this is just a glitch in the latest update and I hope it’s corrected. * [zoks77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoks77/) * (@zoks77) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098751) * Same here, same error, if anyone knows how to fix this let me know. * [your-name] This field has syntax errors. * [zazarza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zazarza/) * (@zazarza) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098753) * If I ignore the error messages, the form doesn’t work at all. :S Now I have to find another contact form :/ Any suggestions? * [daniellaile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniellaile/) * (@daniellaile) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098754) * Use Your email contact instead of [your-name] you can use [your- name] * [zazarza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zazarza/) * (@zazarza) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098755) * [@daniellaile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniellaile/) – then my inbox looks like this: [http://postimg.org/image/mshptb41j/](http://postimg.org/image/mshptb41j/) * `[your-name] ` worked yesterday, but not anymore. 🙁 * /// WTF, now it works again! I guess the staff is doing some changes? * /// …. and again. Now you can’t click at “answer”, then you just get your own email address. * [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/) * (@buzztone) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098756) * [@zoks77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoks77/) – If you can provide the contents of the From & Mail sections of your form, **in a separate post** I’ll be happy help with your particular problem there. * [zoks77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoks77/) * (@zoks77) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/#post-7098757) * [@buzztone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/), I belive I have to just do this: rename to: * would that work? * [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/) * (@buzztone) * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/page/2/#post-7098758) * @zoks – happy to answer you **in your own post** as per [WP Forum Guidelines](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome). Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 23 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Contact Form 7 Update Validation Errors’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/contact-form-7/assets/icon.svg?rev=2339255) * [Contact Form 7](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7/reviews/) * 24 replies * 18 participants * Last reply from: [Brent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colourstone/) * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contact-form-7-update-validation-errors/page/2/#post-7098907) * Status: not resolved