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I'm using a theme that has a built in contact form, which has some options (like where the form is sent) set through the OptionTree plugin.

What's happening is, the email gets sent, but the reply-to is a made-up server address at the webhost, rather than what the visitor's self-stated email is. This is really weird.

When I look at the code, it all seems sound:

//If there is no error, send the email
if(!isset($hasError)) {
    $emailTo = get_option_tree( 'contact_page_email' );  /*Put your own email address here*/ 
    $body = "Name: $name \n\nEmail: $email \n\nSubject: $subject \n\nComments:\n $comments";
    $headers = 'From: My Site <'.$emailTo.'>' . "\r\n" . 'Reply-To: ' . $email;

    mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
    $emailSent = true;
}

It looks like the code is supposed to set reply-to to be the person's stated email address. But our mail server, for some reason, wants to set the reply for all form responses to a server-generated address. The reply-to address ends up being [email protected].

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? The code looks sound to me -- I just can't figure out why when we receive mail from the server from the contact form, it appears to come from an address that isn't the client's email.

Thanks!

Rob

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    Always use wp_mail(), not mail().
    – fuxia ♦
    Commented Jan 12, 2013 at 7:48
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    If you echo/var_dump the $headers what do you get? I
    – Mark Kaplun
    Commented Jan 12, 2013 at 12:14
  • Hey all, thanks for responding. Toscho, I've tried to replace the mail function with wp_mail. Even if it's the right thing to do, it doesn't seem to have any effect on the apparent sender. Here's my new code: if(!isset($hasError)) { $message = "Name: $name \n\nEmail: $email \n\nSubject: $subject \n\nComments:\n $comments"; $headers = 'From: Wordpress <[email protected]>' . "\r\n"; wp_mail('[email protected]', 'Contact from our website form', $message, $headers, $attachments); $emailSent = true; }
    – Rob Butz
    Commented Jan 13, 2013 at 1:31
  • Mark, I'm not sure where I'd get to see the dump of the $headers. Console? Somewhere else? The form uses an AJAX submission so that you stay on the same page and erases the form as soon as you send.
    – Rob Butz
    Commented Jan 13, 2013 at 1:33

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Try this format: Reply-To: John Doe<[email protected]>.

Ref: http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/10/02/reply-to-header-can-create-bounces/

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