The Email action sends a notification email each time the form is submitted. It is addressed to your site’s admin address by default, with a default subject, so the main thing you set up is the message you want to send.
Settings
- To email: who receives the email. Defaults to your site’s admin address. You can send to several recipients by separating them with commas, and each entry can be a plain address or include a name, like Roland <roland@example.com>.
- From name: the name shown next to the From address. It only applies when you also set a From email; if you leave From email empty, WordPress’s own default sender and name are used instead.
- From email: the sender address. Leave it empty to use WordPress’s own default sender, which is usually the most reliable choice for delivery.
- Subject: the email subject line. Defaults to “New form submission on” followed by your site’s name.
- Message: the body of the email. It starts empty, so you write it with your own text and dynamic variables, for example the All fields variable to include everything the visitor submitted. See Filling actions with dynamic variables.
Select More options for the rest:
- Content type: whether the message is sent as HTML (so formatting and links display) or plain text. The default is HTML.
- Reply to email: the address a reply goes to. A common setup is to insert the visitor’s own email field here, so you can reply straight to them.
- CC and BCC: extra recipients, in the same format as To email.
- Attachments: attach the files from one or more File upload fields to the email. Only file fields appear in this list.
