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How to set Auto-response in Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 • 06 Jan 2018

You can use Auto responder that is built inside the Contact Form 7. When the user sends a mail from your website, another mail is send to the user instantly and you can customize what you want in the Auto responder just like you customize the Mail.

Go to Dashboard and click your Contact form 1 title and go to the Mail tab.

Contact-form-7 Mail tab - image — **Figure 1**: Screenshot of the **Mail tab** in the *Contact-Form-7* plugin page.

Scroll down and Check the box Use Mail (2) which will open a fields of option.

Contact-form-7 response mail 2 checkbox - image — **Figure 2**: Screenshot of the *Mail tab* where **Use Mail (2)** is turned on in the *Contact-Form-7* plugin page.

Add your details, Once done. Click the save button at the end to make the changes.

Contact-form-7 response mail fields - image — **Figure 3**: Screenshot of the expanded *Mail tab* for the **Use Mail (2)** in the *Contact-Form-7* plugin page.

Go to the front end and test it out. In the field that says Your Email (required) is the where the auto response will be send. So enter a valid email id. Make sure your Contact Form 7 is configured with Valid email id to receive mails.

You need to Configure the mail settings before you continue with the tutorial. Go here
Install and Configure WP Mail SMTP

Contact-form-7 Front end form - image — **Figure 4**: Screenshot of the front end form in the Browser where the form fields are filled.

You should get a Mail from the Contact Form 7 to your Mail. And also you can see another mail is send to the Sender

Contact-form-7 Received response email - image — **Figure 5**: Screenshot of the split screen gmail page where email is received and the auto response is send.

If you don’t know how to add HTML elements in your Contact Form 7, See this: Contact Form 7 Email Message Body with HTML Table

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