Title: validation process doesn't work
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# validation process doesn't work

 *  [peteratomic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peteratomic/)
 * (@peteratomic)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-process-doesnt-work/)
 * I get the idea of having this, but its annoying and doesn’t work all the time.
   After clicking to validate a form, I often get this error:
 * “This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site.”
 * This happens WITH THE DEFAULT FORM SETTINGS.
 * And besides… its the FROM address. Of course it won’t match the site as it comes
   from the users who fill out the form!
 * Hope this gets fixed soon. 🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  [barnez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pidengmor/)
 * (@pidengmor)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-process-doesnt-work/#post-7184199)
 * If an email is being sent from your website domain, it should now have a FROM
   address from that domain. This is because emails are being spoofed by spammers
   and are being sent from a different domain (e.g. I send you a message from my
   domain but claim to be sending it from `paypal.com`). Such messages are being
   routed into the Spam folder, and so best practice is now to include a FROM email
   address that is from the website domain. Look at the following setup:
 * >  == MAIL ==
   >  From: **[your-name] <wordpress@your-domain.com>** Additional Headers:**
   > Reply-To: [your-email]**
 * 1. When you receive the message, it will have the sender’s name and be from the“
   wordpress” email address specified in FROM (Depending in your hosts, this may
   need to be a real email address (test to see if it processes), and it does need
   to be @your-domain.com).
    2. Adding the `Reply-To: [your-email]` in ADDITIONAL
   HEADERS means that you can reply to the sender by hitting the Reply button in
   your email client. 3. If you want to actually see the sender’s email address 
   in the message you receive you can include it in the MESSAGE section. For example:
 * >  MESSAGE BODY:
   > From: [your-name] <[your-email]>
   >  Subject: [your-subject]
   > [your-message]
 * Hope this helps.
 *  [iyianni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iyianni/)
 * (@iyianni)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-process-doesnt-work/#post-7184203)
 * Yes, but when using the plugin on an internal-only website with an address of
   [http://intranet](http://intranet), it wont allow the FROM address to be wordpress@intranet
   as it says there is a syntax error. So the emails wont send. Any workaround?

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-process-doesnt-work/#post-7184203)
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