Change 'From' field of magento contact form email to the sender

Question

How would one go about changing the \'From\' field of the contact form email to that of the sender\'s? For instance, if a customer was to fill in the form with the email \'t

Answer 1

The place where this gets sent is in app/code/core/Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php at abouts line 100. It looks like the reply-to address for the emails is already set to the email address from the post, so if you're just looking to get easier replies, I'd suggest not fooling with it.

Another issue that you'll likely see is that sending email with a spoofed "from" address may cause your site to quickly become blacklisted from many email providers, which may affect the rest of your business.

That said, if you still want to do this, in that file change this code a bit:

            $mailTemplate->setDesignConfig(array('area' => 'frontend'))
                ->setReplyTo($post['email'])
                ->sendTransactional(
                    Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_TEMPLATE),
                    Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_SENDER), // change this
                    Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_EMAIL_RECIPIENT),
                    null,
                    array('data' => $postObject)
                );

Hope that helps!

Thanks, Joe

Answer 2

Magento Contact Form - been receiving email from myself is a newer duplicate of this question and Joe's answer got me on the right path. In my answer to the duplicate question, I wrote a custom module to override app/code/core/Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php and ended up changing the indicated line above to array('name'=>$post['name'], 'email'=>$post['email']), to make the fix.

IMHO, when I do urgent small fixes in the core that have to stay until properly overloaded, I'm sure to end each line with a comment with my initials twice //CKCK hack to fix ___ and then you can grep for this and see all of your mods via ssh shell: app/code/core$ grep -rn "CKCK" *

I'm also using github for version control, which helps, too.