Last Updated on December 7, 2013 by Neil Murray

Though the Contact Form 7 (CF7) plugin successfully sends millions of emails every day, there are a host of issues that can delay or stop emails on both the sending and receiving ends of a typical email.

This article was set up to help people, who are having trouble sending and receiving emails from CF7, solve their problems.

Emails from CF7 work flawlessly, without any effort, for most people

We ourselves have never had a problem sending or receiving emails from Contact Form 7. Its always worked flawlessly, on a large number of websites, on a few different servers, with no need for any changes to the default setups. It just works and always has.

We believe most users of CF7 have the same experience. CF7 having over 11 million downloads (currently around 10,000 per day), indicates that a lot of people are successfully sending emails from CF7.

But not for everyone – emails don’t work easily for some CF7 users

If you spend some time in the CF7 support forum you will see a lot of posts from people who do have problems with sending our receiving emails from Contact Form 7.

Contact form is not working …
… form not sending
Refuses to send email … etc.

The important point to note is that the sending and receiving of emails depends heavily on both the server where your WordPress installation is hosted and the email configuration of the local computer where the emails are supposed to be received.

If you are having CF7 email problems, you will need to investigate this issue in detail for your particular local configurations at Contact Form 7 Email Issues.

BUT … it ain’t the plugin that is causing your problems. The plugin works!