The reason you are seeing the emails being sent from [email protected] is because your admin email does not match the domain that the form is being sent from. So, if you have a @gmail.com address as your admin email, it will build a local [email protected] email. This mirrors behavior from within WordPress itself to send certain emails.
To solve this, you can either:
- Set the admin email to one that matches your domain
- Use the WP Mail SMTP plugin to override the internal wp_mail() settings.
I’d recommend using WP Mail SMTP because it helps solve a lot of other issues in addition to you not having to change your admin email.
Matthew,
As @jmichno was stating above, the REPLY TO no longer works with WP 3.5. I was using “Configure SMTP” before. I also tried “WP Mail SMTP” and it is not working there. I am using other Contact Modules using the above SMTP plugins and they are working fine with the Reply To.
When I place the “Contact Email” in the “User’s E-mail (optional)” field in the Form Builder, it seems to ignore it. It use to use this when send out via GMail “on behalf of”. So when I would reply it would go to the contact and not to our Admin email in WordPress.
Again my Contact Form DB module is working correctly with “Configure SMTP” and when I try “WP Mail SMTP”, so I know it has something to do with the Visual Form Builder plugin. A speedy fix would be greatly appreciated as our emails are now being replied to incorrectly.
Thanks! Contact me if you need more information.
Matthew – Any update on this issue?
Hey Larry,
I actually released an update last night that included the optional Reply-To header. Let me know if that solves the issue on your host.
Thanks Matt! The update works great! I definitely recommend this plugin to everyone.
I followed the steps above but i still get the same thing. wordpress@ on behalf of… etc… I am up-to-date with updates… i am using VFB pro
I have looked at the headers in a few emails and it shows
Sender:[email protected]
also this.. PHPMailer 5.2.1 (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/)
it is important that my form-fillers do not see this… and they will if they read headers.
Scot
