Contact Form – Setting Reply To Email

Hey Alexa!

The contact form will use the email address the user entered into the “E-Mail” field of the contact form. If your mail client supports the “Reply” feature it should automatically send the email back to the user email address and you don’t need to modify the theme code.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi!

No, please create me an admin account and post the login credentials as private reply. I just tested it with a form on my test server and the recipient field worked with my gmail and ymail account. You must make sure that the email address of the administrator (“Enter the Email address where mails should be delivered to.” option field on the “Edit” page) and the email address you use to test the form are different – otherwise you’ll send an email from your account to your account and then the recipient field won’t work (or actually it doesn’t make sense).

Best regards,
Peter

Hi!

I can’t modify the theme files and debug the issue (because I don’t have admin rights) but you can try to use this code to use the email field address as mail sender.

add_filter('avf_form_from', 'avia_change_from', 10, 3);
function avia_change_from($from,$new_post,$params){
$from = $new_post['e-mail_1'];
return $from;
}

– insert the code at the very bottom of functions.php. If it doesn’t work please give me admin rights – otherwise I can’t debug the code.

Best regards,
Peter

Hey!

Ah ok. This limitation explains everything because it forces you that the “sender” address is (Email address hidden if logged out) and the contact form can’t use a different email address for the sender. You may try to use smtp: http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/ – maybe it allows you to bypass this restriction. If not I recommend to switch to another host or to live with the restriction.

Regards,
Peter