Title: Form Validation Errors
Last modified: September 24, 2016

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# Form Validation Errors

 *  [ianbeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbeyer/)
 * (@ianbeyer)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-errors-2/)
 * When saying that a form has validation errors, It would be a whole lot more useful
   if it actually said WHAT THEY WERE rather than linking to a generic help page
   that covers all errors.

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 *  Thread Starter [ianbeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbeyer/)
 * (@ianbeyer)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-errors-2/page/2/#post-8240536)
 * I can also apparently switch panels using the arrow keys. But there’s no tab 
   UI for them.
 *  Thread Starter [ianbeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbeyer/)
 * (@ianbeyer)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-errors-2/page/2/#post-8240541)
 * See screen shot previously posted. No tabs. Looks like the plugin has a bug in
   the CSS.
 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-errors-2/page/2/#post-8240543)
 * Sounds like a plugin or theme conflict. Temporarily disable *all* other plugins*
   and* switch to a stock WordPress theme (e.g. Twenty-Sixteen). If the Mail tab
   then renders, re-enable one by one until you identify the conflicting plugin/
   theme. Then work to resolve the conflict with the plugin/theme author (most authors
   will be very keen to ensure compatibility with CF7), or weigh up which is more
   important to you to keep.
 *  Thread Starter [ianbeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbeyer/)
 * (@ianbeyer)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-errors-2/page/2/#post-8240596)
 * Once I was able to hack my way around to find the mail tab (I got lucky and accidentally
   hit an arrow key that switched tabs), It’s complaining about the to: email not
   matching the webpage domain, which is not really a problem (and one that should
   be able to be dismissed). There’s no spam reduction benefit there, as the only
   place the site’s canonical domain is placed is in the actual message body (unless
   the plugin is secretly adding another header, which it doesn’t seem to be). I
   think you’ll find very few wordpress websites where the originating server’s 
   DNS actually reverse resolves to the same domain as the webpage:
 * Authentication-Results: spf=pass (sender IP is XX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW)
    smtp.mailfrom
   =wpengine.com; mydomain.com; dkim=pass (signature was verified) header.d=wpengine.
   com;mydomain.com; dmarc=fail action=none header.from=gmail.com;mydomain.com; 
   dkim=pass (signature was verified) header.d=wpengine.com; Received-SPF: Pass (
   protection.outlook.com: domain of wpengine.com designates XX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW as permitted
   sender) receiver=protection.outlook.com; client-ip= XX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW; helo=mail-
   ZZZ-WWW.wpengine.com;
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [ianbeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbeyer/).
 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-errors-2/page/2/#post-8241444)
 * Great to hear you got in to the Mail tab. Regarding the From email address, this
   is the plugin author’s rationale for the error message:
 * > Why does the email address in the From field have to belong to the site domain?
   > For example, if a mail had “your-name@yahoo.com” in the From field, but was
   > actually sent from your web server (it’s not yahoo.com), it would be highly
   > possible that relaying mail servers consider it as a spoofed address. If you
   > use an email address in the same domain as the site, you can reduce the risk
   > of being treated like that.
 * _You can disable the configuration validator by adding:_
 * `define( 'WPCF7_VALIDATE_CONFIGURATION', false );`
 * _to your wp-config.php, or adding:_

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-errors-2/page/2/#post-8241444)
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