Hi Amanda,

The sole reason for the FROM address now being hard-coded to what usually is being used by WP as a default address (it used to be configurable in the past) is due to paranoid email servers that refused to relay emails if the the user provided a FROM address that would only in the slightest deviate from what they'd accept.

However, cforms sets a REPLY-TO address (provided there is an email field in your form!) to which you can directly respond to.

"FROM address now being hard-coded"

Hmmm… not good. But do you know where in code I can change it? 

Hi Oliver,

Great plug-in, I'm still working on setting it up but in reading the forums here I'd have to strongly disagree with your statement about hard coded FROM: field. I understand the problems you mentioned but this is really inconvenient for those of us who don't know PHP.

I don't want to have the e-mails come from my host server name because I don't want to share that information with my blog's guests especially since it has my name as part of the string. It would be fine if you added this to the interface and warned people that it depends on their server what e-mail addresses will work. You can even have a recommended address filled in. Hard coding is not the answer. :)

Thanks for the response, I got it working by making those replacements. It would be nice to see it in the interface next version because that way others can find an obvious place to do that.

Feel free to route all support questions to my contact form, now that I know how to customize the FROM: field. :)

If I understand you right, you'd like to set the FROM: address of the emails going out to the visitor (either via auto confirmation or CC'ed) to the address/recipient the visitor had chosen at form submission.

All you need to do (I think) is to make a small modification, removing the current FROM line and making the REPLY-TO become the NEW FROM: – makes sense?

• Search for "$headers2 = "From: …"  (2x)
• Comment out this line
• below this line, change
  $headers2.= "Reply-To: " to
  $headers2 = "From: "   (note the missing dot!)
  

That should do the trick. Again, depending on what recipient addresses you've configured, your mail server may refuse to relay the email (for all it knows, it could be a "spam attempt") …give it a shot.