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I searched the web for last couple of days for "Reply-to Address" in the email but had no luck so, here I am.

In my wordpress site, there are multiple store owners who can sell their products. When visitors buy a certain item (listed by different owners), that particular owner gets an email notification (Note that it is mandatory to put the visitor's email address during checkout process)

However the email is from "Admin" email account.

I searched for how to set up "reply-to" address so the owners can reply directly to the customer's email address instead of admin account.

Here is an example that I saw which I am trying to achieve:

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In this image, the site is abc.ca and the [email protected] bought something. Then the [email protected] got the email, which the owner can now send a reply back to the customer directly from the email.

How can I achieve something like this?

EDIT:

Here is the code that I have now:

 add_filter('woocommerce_email_headers', 'my_from_reply');
 function my_from_reply() {
 return 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n";
 }

And this is the customer's billing email.

 <?php echo $order->billing_email; ?>

How can I modify the first one to include the "billing_email" instead of "[email protected]"

Thank you

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  • Are you using some particular e-commerce solution?
    – Z. Zlatev
    Commented Mar 30, 2015 at 5:28
  • yes. I am using woocommerce for that. =)
    – Steve Kim
    Commented Mar 30, 2015 at 5:34
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    Without you showing the code that send the email it is impossible to answer the question. Commented Mar 30, 2015 at 6:14
  • Well, there is no code. I could not even start on it, or don't even know where to even start from.
    – Steve Kim
    Commented Mar 30, 2015 at 6:24

2 Answers 2

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If and when you are using wp_mail(), then you can just set Reply-To for the $headers parameter. Exemplary usage below:

$to          = "[email protected]";
$subject     = "Using Reply-To with wp_mail";
$message     = "This is an example for using Reply-To with wp_mail.";
$headers[]   = 'Reply-To: Name Name <[email protected]>';
$attachments = array();
wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers, $attachments ); 

There is a hook wp_mail hook too, which you could use to change the parameters.

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  • If I'm not mistaken WC uses wp_mail() and has a hook woocommerce_email_headers you can use. Commented Mar 30, 2015 at 12:51
  • So, I edited my original post to include the changes which needs some modification. Any suggestions to how I can edit it so that "billing_email" is can be returned.
    – Steve Kim
    Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 3:38
  • So I tried some modification, but no luck. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
    – Steve Kim
    Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 6:54
  • I have never really done this with WC, I just remembered, there are some possibilities. So I can't give you immediate and concrete help. @steveKim Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 11:49
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    please note, the $headers array example in this answer is INCORRECT. It should be $headers = array('Reply-To: Name Name <[email protected]>'); It does NOT take an associative array. Commented Jul 22, 2016 at 17:36
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In functions.php

// Function changes email that your site sending from
function change_my_from_address( $original_email_address ) {
    return '[email protected]';
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from', 'change_my_from_address' );

// Change sender name
function change_my_sender_name( $original_email_from ) {
    return 'example.pl';
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'change_my_sender_name' );

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