change "from" in the contact form

Hi I signed up for this problem too. This is unfortunately a developers mistake since the internet is there. In the past I was responsible for a large marketing system and we worked together with Barracuda Anti Spam so I have my experience on this area.

The receiver (the website owner / backend employee) should NEVER receive the emails through the email address of the website visitor but through a correct internal email (from the website owner’s owned email domain). This is bad programming, so please change this. Thank you.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by avdprojects.

@Mike, Thank you for your reply, I will implement your advice. But still I think the current method to handle SMTP protocol is wrong and should be changed in the core of the Enfold theme. Furthermore I some Enfold users who are not developers and never understand this whole topic.

I could not find a good example and the moment, but this page shows that how it works at the moment in Enfold is wrong:
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/214831378-Troubleshooting-WordPress-contact-forms

Please ask the product owner to put it on a urgent to fix list ;-)

We are using the following modified version of the functions to have the visitor address in the Reply-To: header instead of the From: header. (Auto-reply is not configured, so no changes there).

add_filter('avf_form_from', 'enfold_contact_form_change_from', 10, 3);
function enfold_contact_form_change_from($from, $new_post, $form_params) {
        global $enfold_visitor_from;
        $enfold_visitor_from = $from;
        $from = "info@<domain>";
        return $from;
}

add_filter( 'avf_form_mail_header', 'enfold_contact_form_add_replyto', 10, 3 );
function enfold_contact_form_add_replyto( $header, $p1, $p2 ) {
        global $enfold_visitor_from;
        $header .= 'Reply-To: ' . $enfold_visitor_from . "\r\n";
        return $header;
}

Please mind that the “\r\n” has to be in double-quotes not in single-quotes!
This works for us. However, I would suggest adding a “use Reply-To: instead of From: header for visitor address” option to the contact form settings.

Hi @rsplaul @Mike,

Sorry for my late response. Finally I could test the example provided by @rsplaul and thats works! So Thanks for this ;)

Also this is the solution what I prefer and tried to explain earlier. The From address in a raw email body should always be an address of a mail domain managed by yourself. No matter what is possible and yes actually all parameters in a raw email body can be used differently but we should not do it!

The current method what Enfold implemented is coming out the period from before Google where we trust the internet and their users. But in the meantime everything is changed and must be very strict and this counts for the mime FROM-ADDRESS in a email body too. So I really hope the Enfold team will take this solution over and maybe make the “info@<domain>” coming from a setting what can be set through the “Contact Form” settings.

The solution of @rsplaul is what I have to implement now for more clients and I hope a future update will not overwrite it :-/

Best regards,
avdprojects