Fix Contact Form “Failed to send your message” error 
Posted by Udegbunam Chukwudi on April - 16 - 2010
My last tutorial showed you how to get self hosted wordpress installations to send emails on a server with PHP mail() function disabled. This tutorial will help you get Contact form 7 to send your messages successfully and stop showing the “Failed to send your message” error
Disclaimer: This tutorial is provided as it is. I shall not be held responsible should anything go wrong along the way. The following information worked perfectly well for me and will hopefully work for you too
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Assuming you’ve downloaded, installed and activated Contact Form 7, log into your wordpress dashboard and click on Contact in the Left Sidebar.
Configuring the form section is easy, thus I’m focusing on the mail section which is actually where the problem lies. Using the email address we’d created earlier on in the post on How To Fix WordPress Blog Not Sending Email, we’d configure the mail settings as follows
The Reply-To: [your-email] function under Additional headers, makes sure that when you click on reply in your inbox, you’ll automatically be replying to the sender of that email.
Please note that emails will arrive @ your account as though they are from you. This is because we are using the email address for Wp-Mail SMTP in the From field as shown above.
Once you’re done, scroll back up or down and click on save. Navigate to your contact form on your blog and send a test message. If you get the “Your message was sent successfully” notification, all is well . Check your inbox to find the test message.
Feel free to leave a quick feedback as to if this worked for you or not. Thanks.
Credits: A huge thanks goes out to Mario J Vargas of Anstrey.com. His tutorial “Contact Form 7’s Failed to send your message error” helped me fix this problem on my own server and thus inspired me to write this quick fix tutorial.
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Am really having a difficult time in making this contact form to work on my blog, am really hoping to find the way to make it work!
The problem I had with Contact Form 7 was allowing a visitor send a file. It was because I hadn’t defined the file field, so it was just ignoring the upload and sending the message.
Getting the upload function to work eluded me for ages and I just gave up trying.
I know what you mean. I finally got it working, but I wish the documentation was a little more clear on how to use the upload feature.
Thank you so much for your explanation ! Save me just in time. Greetings from Brazil!
You’re welcome man