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I appreciate this is probably beyond the normal scope of the forum but thought someone might be able to help me. Is there a way to do this? MAMP free version won’t accept the form input so I get an error when I send. Thanks
Hi there,
Thanks for writing in!
If you are trying to send emails from any WordPress installation, you will need to make sure you have a functioning mail server setup there. Local installs (using MAMP, WAMP, XAMPP etc.) often don’t have this capability.
Test if your WordPress installation is able to send emails. Try going through the “forgot password” function on wp-login.php. Do you get the email? If you don’t you will need to rectify this.
Assuming you are able to send emails from your localhost, there are a host of issues that can stop or delay emails on both the sending and receiving ends. It depends entirely on your local Server & WordPress configuration.
See Contact Form 7 Email Issues. Most people that work through this information appear to be able to resolve their email sending & receiving issues.
Hope this helps. Please let us know how it goes.
Thanks you for your considered response. I found a link which described how to ‘tweak’ the php.ini file which activates MAMP (free) to at least accept the form input and positively validate. The emails don’t show up anywhere though. Passing this test hopefully will be enough for it to work once I go live on the host in a few days. Let you know.
You’re welcome!
Cheers!
