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9:52 pm
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Hi… first of all. LOVE this plugin. All the contact form plugins I've used in the past were very restrictive, and only allowed a few pre-determined fields… so Thank You for coding this. 
My question is… is there a way to set the "From" email address to be whatever the person filling out the form put for their email addy?
I'd like to be able to hit "reply" and respond to my contact forms that way. Right now, the "From" address is set to "wordpress@mydomain.com."
Maybe someone can walk me through how to change this…
Thanks!
Amanda
10:24 pm
March 6, 2005
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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.
11:08 pm
Oh gosh, I'm sorry. I did not even notice the "Reply-To" address because Gmail hides it by default.
I figured this was hard-coded for spam reasons… thanks for clarifying!
Amanda
12:18 pm
"FROM address now being hard-coded"
Hmmm… not good. But do you know where in code I can change it?
2:27 pm
March 6, 2005
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Well, it's good for me, because users started configuring all kinds of email addresses that would cause their servers to go crazy and I kept getting emails with "hey cforms doesn't work".
Using a hard coded FROM: and configurable REPLY-TO: is definitely a GOOD thing :-)
3:27 am
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. :)
7:24 am
March 6, 2005
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Hi Edwin,
Re: hardcoded FROM:
There is not much too it if you require the FROM: address to be a different one than your WP default one (wordpress@). I've posted it in other replies, but really the only thing you need to do, is to go into cforms.php and search for wordpress@ and replace it in four areas with whatver you'd like it to be. Easy. And for that you don't need to know PHP :-)
I may add it again in the next release (5.1). (PS. …and will reroute all support emails your way ;-)
3:12 am
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. :)
11:03 pm
Hi Oliver,
I have a related question maybe you can answer. I'm trying to set the From: address to be from the person's e-mail who the user is sending the comment to when there are multiple recipients via drop-down. How would I go about modifying that line to do that?
Thanks!
11:46 pm
March 6, 2005
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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
$headers2 = "From: " (note the missing dot!)
That should do the trick. Again, depending on what recipient addresses you've configured, your mail server may refuse to relay the email (for all it knows, it could be a "spam attempt") …give it a shot.
6:49 pm
Oliver said
If I understand you right, you'd like to set the FROM: address of the emails going out to the visitor (either via auto confirmation or CC'ed) to the address/recipient the visitor had chosen at form submission.All you need to do (I think) is to make a small modification, removing the current FROM line and making the REPLY-TO become the NEW FROM: – makes sense?
- Search for "$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.
Can you please specify the file in which this code is located in latest version of cforms ?
i can't find it in cforms.php
9:02 pm
I am trying to change the admin from email address in the email that user received.
currently its
username@servername.com
but i want it to be what is entered in (admin from email address, in the cforms.
i am using version 4.5 of cforms.
Please help me.
i am trying to figure it out from many days but still no luck.
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