Title: Syntax Error for Mail (2) From
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Syntax Error for Mail (2) From

 *  Resolved [justusad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justusad/)
 * (@justusad)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-for-mail-2-from/)
 * On about half of my contact forms I continue to get a syntax error code on Mail(
   2) “To” field. This is a pretty simple field having only the users email address
   which for my forms is [email]. But for some reason on only half of my forms I
   get this error…
 * Any ideas why this would be happening?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-for-mail-2-from/#post-7104172)
 * What do you have in the Form tab field?
 *  Thread Starter [justusad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justusad/)
 * (@justusad)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-for-mail-2-from/#post-7104266)
 *     ```
       <p style="margin-bottom:10px;">[text* your-name class:getstarted placeholder "Your Name"]</p>
       <p style="margin-bottom:10px;">[text* your-phone class:getstarted placeholder "Phone Number"]</p>
       <p style="margin-bottom:10px;">[text* email class:getstarted placeholder "Email Address"]</p>
       <p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><strong>Get Started With:</strong></p>
       <p style="margin-bottom:10px;">[checkbox services "Personal Injury Marketing" "New Patient Marketing" "Reactivate Past Patients" "Boost Referrals" "Chiropractic Postcards" "Chiropractic Print Materials" "FREE Consultation"]</p>
       <p style="margin-bottom:10px;"><strong>Let Us Know You're Human</strong></p>
       [captchac captcha-101 size:m][captchar captcha-101]
       [submit "Submit"]
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-for-mail-2-from/#post-7104309)
 * Because it’a a general [text field](http://contactform7.com/text-fields/).
 *     ```
       [text* email class:getstarted placeholder "Email Address"]
       ```
   
 * Replace the “text*” with “email*”.
 *     ```
       [email* email class:getstarted placeholder "Email Address"]
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [justusad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justusad/)
 * (@justusad)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-for-mail-2-from/#post-7104323)
 * Got it! Thank you very much for the help. I appreciate it.

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## Tags

 * [mail 2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mail-2/)
 * [mail-to](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mail-to/)
 * [syntax error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/syntax-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [justusad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justusad/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/syntax-error-for-mail-2-from/#post-7104323)
 * Status: resolved