Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular contact form plugins today. While we’ve already discussed how to save submissions from Contact Form 7 to a database, we are often asked if Contact Form 7 can send to multiple email addresses. The quick answer is yes, and here’s how to do it!
1. You Already Know Which Email Addresses to send to
If you already know which email’s you would like to receive submissions, than you can enter the primary email in the “To:” field, as well as add CC (carbon copy) or BCC (blind carbon copy) headers in the ‘additional headers’ section.
*A quick reminder that if you use CC, all recipients will see who received the email, use BCC to hide a recipient.
2. Additional Email’s Are Entered Into The Contact Form
If you need to grab any emails that are entered into the form, you can easily add these to the CC or BCC tags by utilizing Contact Form 7’s mail tag system. When initially creating the contact form, be sure to give each of your email fields a unique name and save the form.
Now under the mail tab, you will see the available mail tags you can use either in the body of the email, or in the additional headers section. Simply add the needed tags into the additional headers section, and Contact form 7 will send multiple emails to the addresses pulled from the form!
*If you cannot see the names of fields entered into the Form, you have to save the Form, then they will appear under the Mail tab.
We hope this has helped to show how Contact From 7 can send to multiple email addresses. Have any other questions about WordPress and contact forms? Ask in the comments below!
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There’s a much easier way.
In the line “TO” you just put your e-mails jne by one separeted with comas (without space!).
Example: “name@gmail.com,anothername@gmail.com,thirdname@gmail.com…”
That’s it.
Yes this can work as long as you want every form response to go to all of the emails. That’s what makes Contact Form 7 so great, lots of options!
If you do not want this, but let’s say: you want all of the mails to one adress. But only a specific emails to another email, how would you do that?
Is there a limit for the amount of emails placed in the “TO” subject? e.g I have 200 email addresses!
That’s kinda spammy… You can do this in a better way, in your hosting panel, create an email alias or a distribution list that contains all those addresses
how do you do that dynamically, from a db query based on situational parameters?
Example: “name@gmail.com,anothername@gmail.com,thirdname@gmail.com…”
is not working
I would like a form that sends emails to different addresses dependant on a selection of a general subject.
An example would be that the form has 4 general subjects that you can select one of (such as”Product Orders” or “Website issues”) and the notification email would be sent to whomever in the company is assigned to handle the particular inquiry. Is this possible with this form?
I get errors when trying to use emails captured in the form for Cc of Bcc.
“Invalid mailbox syntax is used in the Cc field. How to correct this?
Invalid mailbox syntax is used in the Reply-To field. How to correct this?”
I simply just added “Bcc: mail@domain.xx”
Not changing anything in the formular, just adding the mail
Hi Can you do bcc for multiple recipients?
e.g.
Sales|bcc:test1@test.com,bcc:test2@domain.com,test1@test@xyz.com
Sales2|bcc:test1@test.com,bcc:test2@domain.com,test1@test@xyz.com
If so would you mind giving the correct syntax ?
I try cc: and bcc it’s not working,
I want to send email confirmation to sender whenever any user submits the form
hi im also looking for the same if you have found the solution it would be a great help for me
please use the
Mail (2)
Use Mail (2)
Mail (2) is an additional mail template often used as an autoresponder.
you will find it below the mail settings.
Question: I am tweaking a WordPress website that has a form made in Contact Form 7. We have just head from a former employee that she is receiving copies of any emails that are generated by this form. I expected to find her email address as a bcc in the Additional Headers section of the mail tab. It’s not there, in fact that section is blank. Where else might it be?
@Janice – check if her e-mail is used as wp page admin e-mail. form might send e-mails to admin e-mail
@Janice – check if her e-mail is used as wp page admin e-mail. form might send e-mails to admin e-mail
Hi,
we have a group, which contains 3 adresses. Normally, when I send a mail to this group (support@[ourdomain])
it creates a ticket in our support system, and notifies all of us 3.
But when sent from contact form 7, only an email to our postmaster is sent.
As if I wrote something else than support.
booboo@[ourdomain] would also end up at postmaster (who also happens to be one of us, so I didn’t notice at first)
Anyone?! Help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
hi we want to send email to selected receiver in a drop down menu , how can we do that with contact form 7????
you select your receiver from a drop down menu and then write your message and send it….
Can’t get CC: to work
how to add more than one email address into from section in “contact form 7” Plugin.
Hi Randy Carpadus, you can use the contact form’s dropdown tag to achieve that.
for example.
[select your-recipient “CEO|ceo@example.com”
“Sales|sales@example.com”
“Support|support@example.com”]
and then use that tag “e.g your-recipient’ in the “to:” field of the form, so the selected option will recieve the email.
if using a send to drop down – can the emails that are being used be hidden to reduce spam ?
Yes, in the drop down if you view source on the web site you only get the value not the email address.
I want to send email by group, i have created conditional fields so i want to respond with different message.. which is I need 3 mail respond i want to notify admin,first group or second group
The previous plug in I used has now been pulled over security issues. As a result I am looking for a new one.
The thing is I have a specific need. On my site I have people contacting me on different issues so I need them to be able to choose a topic. Then depending on that topic, will depend who gets emailed.
Is that possible?
I tried it .thank you for sharing this information .
lets say i have a form that has an “affiliate” code.
They type it in, but i want only that code sent to a particular email.
Is that possible?