This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site. error message shown in WordPress Contact Form 7 is not an error
Here’s What This Message Means
It means that the email address you are using for contact form 7 to receive your emails is different to your domain name. This is perfectly okay because as long as you are getting your emails, there is no error.
For example: if I am using Contact Form 7 on rankya.com domain, and then provide email address to receive my emails using another email client such as hello@gmail.com AND I am still getting my emails, where is the error then? Basically, you can ignore this warning as long as your form is sending messages.
Where is the file that Generates this Error Message?
The file is within WordPress plugin folder
- contact-form-7/includes/config-validator.php
It uses a function and PHP switch condition
public function get_error_message( $section ) {
$code = $this->get_error( $section );
switch ( $code ) {
case self::error_maybe_empty:
return __( "This field can be empty depending on user input.", 'contact-form-7' );
case self::error_invalid_syntax:
return __( "This field has syntax errors.", 'contact-form-7' );
case self::error_email_not_in_site_domain:
return __( "This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site.", 'contact-form-7' );
case self::error_html_in_message:
return __( "HTML tags are not allowed in a message.", 'contact-form-7' );
default:
return '';
}
}
How to Fix ‘This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site’ Error Message
Login to your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Editor > Select plugin to edit: Contact Form 7 > contact-form-7/includes/config-validator.php
Just comment out using 2 forward slashes as highlighted below
public function get_error_message( $section ) {
$code = $this->get_error( $section );
switch ( $code ) {
case self::error_maybe_empty:
return __( "This field can be empty depending on user input.", 'contact-form-7' );
case self::error_invalid_syntax:
return __( "This field has syntax errors.", 'contact-form-7' );
//case self::error_email_not_in_site_domain:
//return __( "This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site.", 'contact-form-7' );
case self::error_html_in_message:
return __( "HTML tags are not allowed in a message.", 'contact-form-7' );
default:
return '';
}
}
I attempted to fix this but couldn’t I think it was to do with SMTP plugin. Now I understand
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In this example, I could extend my content using comments that include words that are of interest for this URL. Like this: This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site is a common issue with Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin, and if you are still having problems you can try to use SMTP Mail plugins which may address the issue.
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WordPress contact form 7 is filled with errors with the validation checker. Almost 50% of site owners use different email addresses, plugin makers should know this instead of telling us This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site as an error
I agree, Contact Form 7 plugin has really confused its users, if you know the email address is different on purpose, and you do receive this warning, then, ignore it because all is okay
Doesn’t work! All it does is get rid of the error message. It still wont let you have an email address that belongs to a different domain
You should check out using Easy WP SMTP, because This email address does not belong to the same domain as the site basically means the WordPress settings email address is different to the Contact Form 7 mail address, thus validation errors. This is done by Contact Form 7 team to avoid email spam and delivery issues because some web servers treat email addresses differently.