It seems Contact Form 7 allows you to specify the recipient via a select dropdown. This means that the recipient e-mail address is stored in the form and sent to the server, which then just reads it. Unless the server then verifies the recipient address was one of the options you specified, this can be … Read more
Contact form 7 is one of my favorite plugins , now after I’ve said that you can either create your own module to add a filed of “readonly” by following this tutorial http://blog.ekynoxe.com/2010/09/06/extending-contact-form-7/ or maybe even digging through Contact Form 7 Modules plugin to see how to add new modules, but a much easier solution … Read more
You probably need to setup smtp for it to work. Your host probably has disabled the php mail function try this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
There is no RIGHT way to do this, instead there might be more efficient ways and or preferred ways to do this over another but even then, that does not make any of them more right than the other. I say this just to clear to air in case you and or others take any … Read more
This is actual mail server trouble, where email cannot be sent. This link will useful. http://angstrey.com/index.php/2009/04/22/how-to-send-e-mail-with-wordpress-from-godaddy-windows-hosting/
Cheers. When sending mail, how does it fail? Does everything look normal on the frontend (no error messages or so), but the mail do not arrive at their destination? If so, maybe you need to set up SMTP. With Gmail and some other services you need to send with SMTP instead of PHP Mail (when … Read more
A quick look for tel in the plugin gives me this check for telephone numbers: function wpcf7_is_tel( $tel ) { $result = preg_match( ‘%^[+]?[0-9()/ -]*$%’, $tel ); return apply_filters( ‘wpcf7_is_tel’, $result, $tel ); } Using the above function the plugin is validating whether the user input is a valid tel or not. So the above … Read more
I’ve found what’s been missing in the code. You have to add this also: add_filter( ‘wpcf7_mail_components’, ‘mycustom_wpcf7_mail_components’ ); function mycustom_wpcf7_mail_components( $components ) { $components[‘attachments’][] = get_template_directory().’/pdf/test.pdf’; return $components; } Now everything is working fine and the file is attached to email without the need to add fields in the contact form.
Sending an email from an address you don’t own will mean you run into problems with countermeasures again email spoofing (e.g SPF), as you’re effectively impersonating the user’s email address to send your email. You could put the user email address as the name, but send the email from an address you own For contact … Read more
You can try this add-on to make conditional fields. https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/cf7-conditional-fields/