Help Setting Up Contact Form 7 (or similar) please

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Good afternoon folks,

I have a question regarding my free website I am setting up for myself. The website is smadetailing.ml. I use freenom for my free domain name and infinity free for my free hosting.

My question is concerning setting a simple contact form. I saw a lot of videos recommending the Contact Form 7 plugin for WP but when I tried setting it up for myself it says message sent but I receive no messages.

I use a email service based out of Switzerland called ProtonMail. The email address is used to sign up for both freenom and infinity free is my personal ProtonMail email.

I would like some assistance configuring a simple contact form for my website so customers who visit my website have a simple way to fill out a message and have it land in my personal ProtonMail email account.

Any help would be much appreciated! (Though I am a totally new to this, so explanations should be in noob talk! :wink: )

Thanks in advance!

-Milo

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Hello!

I don’t know how CF7 works, but I think you have to setup SMTP separately since we don’t support PHP mail() here.

You can also use this project instead if you wish.

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Like Greenreader9 said, our hosting doesn’t support PHP mail(), so you’ll need to use a third party email provider to send the messages. Almost any email provider can work, and even a simple, free Gmail account will do the trick.

As far as I know, Contact Form 7 just uses the built-in email functionality of WordPress, so you’ll need a WordPress plugin to send mail with SMTP.

The plugin WP Mail SMTP is probably the most popular one, but other plugins like Easy WP SMTP will also work.

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