Reply To: As a link owner, I never get the email from the Contact Form

Steven,

I learned a lot more about my options and how the email systems operate, thanks to your comments, and I am definitely going with the SendGrid solution. I just had trouble with the DNS changes, but GoDaddy tech support checked it out for me, and they said to wait 24 hours, and it appears it’s going to take a while.

I suspect something is wrong with their DNS servers because I checked the website https://www.whatsmydns.net/ and it seem so far the CNAME settings are not propagating at all anywhere in the world.

I did open an account with SendGrid and I think they recommend the option with the API key. I suspect I will have to contact GD about again. I studied their manuals and I think the SPF/DKIM options are the way to go. I’ll worry about that later though, once I got the emails working.

You are right about the Entry Contact Forms, that they don’t have website fields, but I think I will figure out how to add a Phone field; I’ll try to search these forums for an answer. I am going to leave a tutorial link I found before, if you don’t mind, maybe some of your users will find it useful to learn hot to set up the SendGrid for WordPress. The only flaw about this tutorial might have is that it doesn’t mention that the DNS changes will take a while to propagate. Again, GoDaddy said it takes 24 hours, but I think I read somewhere in the SendGrid website that some servers might take up to 48 hours. And yet, I read in some other public forums that they shouldn’t take more than one hour….

Thanks again,

CMC

SendGrid Tutorial: https://wpengine.com/support/configuring-sendgrid-for-wordpress/