ChronoForms v4 Email [GH] action

Hello,

I'm having really hard time setting the email setting of my form in V4.
I'm trying to understand why you have taken away basic functionality in V4.

I would like to send an email to the admin from a simple contact form.
the "mail-to" should be STATIC: [email]admin@mail.com[/email]
the "from-mail" should be DYNAMIC: {from_mail_field}
the "from-name" should be DYNAMIC: {from_name_field}
the "subject" should be STATIC + DYNAMIC: example:you have a message regarding: {subject_field}

I could do that in V3, and it worked fine, I have always received mail, non to my spam folder and if there are mail to my spam I know how to handle filters.

now in the current mail action, you cannot combine the Dynamic and Static.
and I have tried the "ChronoForms v4 Email [GH] action" which should add advanced options, and while it does allow Dynamic and Static, it doesn't allow dynamic field to be put in from mail.

Why not let us decide if want to have a Dynamic from mail or not ?
I'm aware of the "reply to mail" but don't find it a good solution for me.
when I'm creating contacts from Outlook it is important to see the name and their email, not my own.

can you please help and tell me which changes should I make to allow a Dynamic field in the From-Mail ?

Thank you in advance.

Hi Lansman,

I will try to answer your question using the basic Email action:

the "mail-to" should be STATIC: [email]admin@mail.com[/email]

Ok, place this under the static tab, To field.

the "from-mail" should be DYNAMIC: {from_mail_field}

place this under the dynamic tab, "From Email" field, e.g: email (no curly brackets)

the "from-name" should be DYNAMIC: {from_name_field}

place this under the dynamic tab, "From Name" field, e.g: email (no curly brackets)

the "subject" should be STATIC + DYNAMIC: example:you have a message regarding: {subject_field}

Under the dynamic tab, Subject field, write something dummy like : my_custom_subject
then BEFORE the "Email" action you should have a "Custom code" action with this:

<?php
$form->data['my_custom_subject'] = "you have a message regarding: ".$form->data['subject_field'];
?>

Regards,
Max

Hi lansman,

can you please help and tell me which changes should I make to allow a Dynamic field in the From-Mail ?

I quite deliberately left that out. Using the Dynamic From Email is the most frequent cause of Emails being treated as spam. With the majority of mail services using a From Email that doesn't match your domain will automatically get the email dropped.

Use the Dynamic Reply To Email and Name instead.

Bob

When I use the Dynamic from mail for messages delivered to my own mail provider, I didn't face any false spam. maybe it depends on different providers.

I believe it would be better to just leave a "warning notice" about the spam issue, and still let the user to decide by himself, my opinion at least.

Hi Lansman,

I understand your opinion, I used to think the same - but after the fiftieth user posting here that their emails aren't being delivered my opinion changed :-(

It seems that pretty much all the popular hosting sites check that the From Email domain matches the site domain; if they don't they treat the email as likely relaying and bin it without explanation. Not all do this, but enough for it to be a repeating problem.

Bob

In this situation:
a contact form is located at : <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.domain.com">www.domain.com</a><!-- w -->
and being sent from that domain to [email]info@domain.com[/email] with a dynamic from mail: [email]info@google.com[/email].
I believe that in this situation, mails should not be considered spam by the provider.
As they are being sent from and to the same domain.
(I have used 3 different providers without any problem).

not to confuse with the other situation where the "sent to" is set to dynamic as well, and in that case I'm sure there would be spam problems.

Hi lansman,

No point you and I debating the niceties of ISP anti-spam policy.

Using the Dynamic Reply To entries works just as well and avoids the problems.

Bob