Fix Contact Form Emails That Never Arrive with AI
Diagnose why form notifications vanish and fix delivery with a properly configured mailer.
Prerequisites
A connected site with a WPForms form. The fix step installs the free WP Mail SMTP plugin (with your approval) and needs an account with a mail service its wizard supports, like Brevo, SendLayer, or Gmail.
Emails from my WordPress contact forms are not arriving. Diagnose before changing anything: check my WPForms forms and tell me whether each form's notification is enabled and what address it sends to (read each form's saved configuration JSON for this; the form summary does not include notification settings, and resolve smart tags like {admin_email} to the actual address). Also check the site's admin email, and whether an SMTP or mailer plugin is already installed and configured. Report what you find in plain words. If a mailer plugin is already installed but not fully configured, do not install anything else; walk me to that plugin's setup wizard instead. If the site is relying on the default PHP mailer, recommend the fix and wait for my go-ahead before installing the free WP Mail SMTP plugin. After installing, walk me to its setup wizard; I will connect the mail service and enter any keys myself. Do not ask me for mail passwords or API keys in this chat. When I have finished the wizard, remind me to send the wizard's test email and then submit one of my own forms to confirm delivery end to end.
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A visitor fills in your contact form, the site says thanks, and nothing lands in your inbox. Form emails fail silently, and the usual culprit is the web server’s own mailer: mail sent that way gets dropped or junked by Gmail and Outlook because it never properly proves who sent it. Usual, not only, which is why you diagnose before you fix.
WPVibe lets the AI diagnose the whole chain before changing anything: whether the form’s notification is enabled and who it points at, what address WordPress sends from, and whether a mailer plugin is already installed and configured. Then it recommends the fix, usually the free WP Mail SMTP plugin, installs it with your go-ahead, and hands you to its setup wizard to connect a real mail service.
Paste the prompt and answer its questions. The AI never asks for your mail passwords or API keys; you enter those in the WP Mail SMTP wizard yourself, in wp-admin. Finish with the wizard’s own test email plus a real form submission to confirm the whole path works.
Outcome
A diagnosis of why form emails were failing and a working delivery path, verified with a test email and a real submission.