well if you updated and it didn’t work, try doing the fix manually
as per this user
“The solution I came up with was a serious hack, but there was no other way around it short of editing the plugin’s core code. Just stick this somewhere in your theme’s functions.php and it should work:”
add_filter("wpcf7_mail_tag_replaced", "suppress_wpcf7_filter");
function suppress_wpcf7_filter($value, $sub = ""){
$out = !empty($sub) ? $sub : $value;
$out = strip_tags($out);
$out = wptexturize($out);
return $out;
}
hope it helps – otherwise if you are really helpless u might have to roll back to an older version of contact form. Version 2.2.1 doesn’t seem to have this problem while version 2.3 has it